Although her public school teaching experience was in the inner-city of Des Moines, her research concerns historical music teacher preparation, music teaching materials and methods and rural schools. She is a frequent clinician for general music, choirs, music teachers and the research community and has taught or presented research throughout North America, Europe and Australia. In 2003, Stover earned her PhD from the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University in music education with minor fields of pipe organ and church music. She earned the Mastery Certificate in Orff-Schulwerk from the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota with additional study at the Orff Institute in Salzburg, Austria.