Exploring rural middle school music teachers' classroom interaction decision-making levels: A student's perspective.

This study explores students' perceptions of rural middle school music teachers' decision-making levels in the context of classroom interactions. Using a questionnaire survey of 246 students from a rural public middle school and follow-up interviews, we investigate students' overall perceptions and examine differences among students of different genders, grades, and music study experiences. The results indicate that students generally perceive teachers' decision-making levels to be slightly above average, with no significant differences between male and female students or among different grade levels in their perceptions of teacher decision-making levels.