The Effect of Music Instruction On Student Success In The Age Of HighStakes Testing and Accountabili

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The Effect of Music Instruction On Student
Success In The Age Of High-Stakes Testing and
Accountability

• A Dissertation Proposal by
• Roxana Liñan

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Proposal Format

• Purpose of Study
• Research Questions
• Review of the Literature
• Research Design

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Music education is often scrutinized as
insignificant and frivolous entertainment rather
than an area of essential knowledge and skills
(Weinberger, 1999a).
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In the past 10 years academic contributions of
music to other areas have become more extensively
recognized and accepted, enabling educators to
show increased interest in understanding the
beneficial academic outcomes of music(Wiggins,
2001).
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Purpose of the Study

• The study was to examine the possible impact of
  music instruction on student achievement in
  selected South Texas public schools with
  kindergarten through twelfth grade students.

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Research Questions

• Does music instruction influence student
  achievement?
• Does music instruction influence the learning
  environment and school climate?
• Does music instruction influence brain
  development thus impacting student achievement?

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Research Questions cont.

• 4. What is the level of awareness,
  implementation, and support of music instruction?
• 5. Do years of experience influence perceptions
  regarding music instruction?

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Hypotheses

• HO1 There is no statistical significant
  difference in achievement between students in
  music appreciation classes and those who are not.
• HO2 There is no statistical significant
  relationship between years of experience and
  implementation of music instruction.

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Significance of the Study

• Research on music implementation is crucial for
  all educators due to the increase of
  accountability on student achievement.
• Educators must explore alternatives to utilize
  when striving for academic achievement.
• Provide awareness of how music instruction
  influences student achievement, moreover with
  administration whose decisions affect curriculum.

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Key Terms

• TEKS
• TAKS
• Music Educators National Conference (MENC)
• Music specialist
• Music appreciation
• Music integration
• NCLB

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Review of Literature

• Of all the arts, the one that appears to affect
  the lives of children most directly is music.
  Music is something they can understand,
  participate in, and enjoy. Music leads children
  into worlds of fantasy and imagination. It has no
  barriers of race, ethnicity, or color
• Laura Bryan, Ed. D.

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Review of Literature

• Benefits of music instruction include
• Success in society, school, developing
  intelligence, and in life.
• Music is part of the fabric of our society.
• There are some interesting facts and figures that
  exist on the benefits of music instruction.

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Historical Background

• Western Heritage
• New World America
• Early American Education
• Growth of Music Education
• Music Education in the 20th Century

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Student Achievement

• Students learning to play musical instruments
  hold higher G.P.A.s and develop faster
  physically, mentally, emotionally, and socially.
  This also adds to enhanced ability in
  concentration, memory, eyesight, and hearing.
• Students in the fine arts continue to surpass
  their non-arts peers on SAT scoring 52 points
  higher on the verbal portion and 37 points higher
  on the mathematics portion.
• According to MENC (1999) music participants
  receive more academic honors, awards, and grade
  of A, A/B, and B.
• Math Reading gains.

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School Climate and Learning Environment

• Scripp (2002), a music educator described how
  disciplines can assist each other by reinforcing
  and expanding the learning from one discipline to
  another (i.e. linking music with other
  disciplines).
• The study of music in schools has been determined
  to promote social well-being by giving children a
  sense of belonging to a group.

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Brain Development

• Music engages both hemispheres of the brain.
• Brain imagery shows differentiations in brain
  structure between music instrument instruction
  vs. no music instruction.
• Thicker neural fibers
• Increasing cerebral hemispheres
• Increasing EEG frequencies therefore increasing
  cognitive processing
• Mozart Effect

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Howard Gardners Basic Intelligences

• Visual/Spatial
• Verbal/Linguistic
• Mathematical/Logic
• al
• Bodily/Kinesthetic

• Musical/Rhythmic
• Intrapersonal
• 7. Interpersonal
• Naturalist
• Existentialist

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Level of awareness, implementation, and support

• According to the National Center For Education
  Statistics Analysis Report for June 2002- 46 of
  music specialists strongly agreed that parents
  support their efforts in educating their children
  and 58 of music specialist agreed that they were
  supported by the administration in their schools.

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The Arts are an integral component of our
educational system in developing the attitudes,
characteristics, and intellectual capacities
required for students to participate successfully
in todays society and economy.
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The arts teach self-discipline, reinforce
self-esteem, foster thinking skills and
creativity, and promote teamwork and cooperation.
Most notably, though, the Arts are important in
and of themselves in that they are a vital and
vibrant part of our personal, social, and
cultural environment.Shirley Neeley, Ed. D
Texas Commissioner of Education
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Research Design

• Mixed methods-combination of quantitative data
  analysis and an examination of qualitative
  interviews .
• Descriptive and comparative

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Population

• Quantitative data
• 100 respondents
• 7 elementary music educators
• 7 secondary music educators
• 61 non-music educators
• 20 administrators/directors
• 7 school board members

• Qualitative data
• 12 participants
• 4 elementary music educators
• 2 non-music educators
• 4 administrators
• 2 school board members

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Instrumentation

• Management Information System department will
  extract TAKS scores from students who are in
  music appreciation classes vs. students who are
  not in any music appreciation classes.
• Questionnaire
• Semi-structured Interviews

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Data Analysis

• Likert scale
• ANOVA-difference between students in music
  appreciation classes vs. those who are not, and
  the dependent variable will be the TAKS test
• Chi-square-years of experience

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In conclusion, become aware of the benefits music
instruction has to offer and the impact it has on
academic achievement.
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Music for all! Music is the universal
language of mankind. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Without music life would be a mistake. Friedrich
Wilhelm Nietzsche
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When I graduate
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The Effect of Music Instruction On Student
Success In The Age Of High-Stakes Testing and
Accountability

• A Dissertation Proposal by
• Roxana Liñan