“…The role of teachers in the development of skills has also been studied with emphasis being placed on the effect of teachers' expectations on learner achievement -with low achievement and low teacher expectation being highly correlated (Rosenthal and Jacobson, 1968;and Blatchford, Burke, Farquhar, Plewis and Tizard, 1989). In music education research most of the investigations have focused on teachers delivering a curriculum in classroom contexts, where a single teacher works alone with a large group of children ( Cassidy, 1990;Duke and Madsen, 1991;Hendel, 1995;Madsen and Alley, 1979;Madsen and Geringer, 1989;Yarborough and Price, 1989).…”