Dr. David A. Rickels is an Assistant Professor and Director of Music Education the Department of Music. He holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Music Education from Arizona State University. He has previously taught in a wide range of settings from kindergarten through college, including general music, beginning band, marching bands, concert bands, jazz bands, music theory, and music education courses. Dr. Rickels also has an extensive and varied background of 15 years in the marching arts as a performer, instructor, designer, and adjudicator. As a conductor, Dr. Rickels has performed with the Mesa Community College Day Band and the Arizona State University Concert Band in addition to his high school ensembles. His interests as a researcher have centered on music teacher recruitment and issues surrounding competitive processes for bands.
Articles (Peer Reviewed)
Demographics and Faculty Time Allocation of Music Education Professors in the United States (with Wesley D. Brewer), Journal of Music Teacher Education (2011)
The purpose of this study was to construct a demographic and time allocation profile...
Influences on Career Choice Among Music Education Audition Candidates: A Pilot Study (with Kimberly H. Councill, William E. Frederickson, Michelle J. Hairston, Ann M. Porter, and Margaret Schmidt), Journal of Research in Music Education (2010)
The purpose of this pilot study was to survey prospective undergraduate music education majors to...
A Comparison of Variables in Arizona Marching Band Festival Results, Journal of Band Research (2008)
This study investigated the relationships between scores at high school marching band festivals during the...
Other Articles
Old Wine in New (Technological!) Bottles, Arizona Music News (2008)
Music teachers are often overwhelmed by the amount of technology available in the schools today....
Encountering Technology in the Music Classroom, Arizona Music News (2007)
This article presents several strategies for music teachers who are struggling with the assimilation of...
Reviewed Presentations
Using m-Learning to Enrich Introductory Field Experiences, Poster session presented at the Biennial Colloquium for Teachers of Instrumental Music Methods (2011)
The purpose of this study was to explore an m-Learning approach using mobile devices in...
Access, equity, and effectiveness: Challenging the music education paradigm (with Sandra L. Stauffer), Biennial Research Seminar of the International Society for Music Education (2010)
This paper reports one of three parallel investigations in a large study funded by the...
A Demographic Study of Music Education Professors in the United States (Poster Session) (with Wesley D. Brewer), Society for Music Teacher Education (2009)
The purpose of this study was to construct a demographic and workload profile of the...
Lillian Williams Linsey: A Legacy of Leadership (Poster Session), ArtsWork Arts Education Graduate Student Research Symposium (2008)
Perceptions of a career choice in music education: The voice of the high school student (Poster Session), Society for Music Teacher Education (2007)
The purpose of this qualitative study was to examine influences on high school music students’...
Other
mLearning Scholars Panel (with Allan Heaps, Barbara Schroeder, Nicole Molumby, Leslie Madsen-Brooks, Michal Temkin Martinez, Sam Matson, Lutana Haan, Sharon Tabor, Denice Liley, and Yu-Chang Hsu), Mobile Learning Symposium (2011)
The Spring 2011 mLearning Scholars will discuss their experience as a panel. Questions will be...
A Multivariate Analysis of Nonperformance Variables as Predictors of Marching Band Contest Results (Dissertation) (2009)
The purpose of this study was to examine a set of nonperformance variables pertaining to...