The relationship between Hispanic enrollment and the classroom environment in secondary choral music programs

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The purpose of this study was to investigate the classroom environment in choral music programs with both low Hispanic enrollment and proportionate Hispanic enrollment in order to identify the aspects of the classroom environment that may encourage Hispanic participation. In addition, this study investigated whether there was a difference in how Hispanic students, White students, and students who are neither Hispanic nor White assess the classroom environment in choral music programs. Finally, this research compared the classroom environment in the choral music classroom with a normative sample of representative high school classes. Four hundred and five high school students enrolled in ten choral music programs completed the Classroom Environment Scale. The students' responses were then analyzed using a multivariate analysis of variance. The results of this analysis indicate there is a difference between the classroom environments in programs with proportionate Hispanic enrollment and

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