Learning Music Academic Achievement

The outcome of learning music can help benefit children, by teaching them new skills that they can use later in life. The research conducted by Forgeard, Winner, Norton, & Schlaug (2008) shows that children who take instrumental music lessons have gained more cognitive abilities. The children, who have accessed more of their cognitive abilities, also learn how to sync multiple skills together, which can benefit them in their academic studies. According to the research that was done by Kinney (2008), the 6th-grade band students scored significantly higher on their proficiency test than non-band students; also, as 4th-grade students, they outperformed their counterparts on their proficiency test. There were several literary sources have found …show more content…
For my sample, I will draw on Spanaway Junior High school students. I chose Spanaway Junior High School because of convenience; as well as, my personal connections to the school. After gaining access to the school, I will make sure to talk with the appropriate individual’s and set up the proper procedures to go through the schools IRB board. Also, I will request to use existing data and information provided by the school.
After using convenience sample for the schools participation in the experiment, I will use a “nonequivalent control design” to assign the “experimental” and “control” group for Spanaway Junior High School students. The experimental group with consist of students who are enrolled in the school 's music program and the control group will be non-participants of the schools music program. I will use existing data provided by the schools to determine how many students are in each cluster, their ages, ethnicity, and gender. To be able to identify any changes in the children’s academic achievement, I will use the students sixth, and eighth grade standardized test scores. …show more content…
The envelope will consist of an explanation of the experiment, the pre-test survey, and a consent form. The parents or sixth-grade students will be required to turn in all documents no more than two after the start of sixth grade. All material must be submitted, before collecting the student’s data for the experiment. The school will also notify the parents of the experiment on the effects of music on academic achievement being conducted at the school. The participants from the schools will be students enrolled in the sixth music program, students who are not enrolled in the music program, and students who have been associated with music outside of school. The exact number of students, ages, gender, and ethnicity will be known after reviewing and analyzing the existing data that will be provided by the Spanaway Junior