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Brian Shaw

Associate Professor of Music (Music Education)

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Phone:
812-855-3733
Email:
bpshaw@iu.edu
Department:
Music Education
Simon Center, M145C

Education

  • Ph.D., Ohio State University, 2020
  • Certificate in Educational Administration, DePaul University, 2010
  • M.M.E., University of Illinois, 2009
  • B.M.E., Indiana University, 2002

Biography

Brian Shaw is Associate Professor of Music in music education at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music and adjunct assistant professor of biostatistics at the IU School of Public Health. His areas of scholarly interest include assessment and grading, artificial intelligence, measurement and psychometrics, quantitative research methods, and education policy.

Shaw is the author of the book Music Assessment for Better Ensembles, an assessment and grading resource for music teachers published by Oxford University Press. His work appears in the Journal of Research in Music Education, the Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education, Psychology of Music, the Stata Journal, Music Educators Journal, Science and Engineering Ethics, and Clinical Interventions in Aging. He has presented at the National Association for Music Education’s Music Research and Teacher Education and National In-Service Conferences, the Music Education and Multilevel Modeling Special Interest Groups of the American Educational Research Association, the International Research in Music Education conference, the International Symposium on Assessment in Music Education, the International Symposium on the Sociology of Music Education, and the Midwest Clinic.

Previously, Shaw was a member of the music education faculty at Ohio State University and an award-winning music teacher and administrator in Indiana and Illinois. His bands performed at prestigious events including the Illinois Music Education Conference and Illinois Superstate Concert Band Festival, and appeared as a demonstration ensemble at the Midwest Clinic.

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