Keywords
Instrumental music; band, orchestra; student achievement; middle school; socioeconomic; mozart effect; music participation
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to determine the differences in growth on the reading and mathematics FCAT 2.0 across varying levels of instrumental music participation by both low- and high-socioeconomic status (SES) middle school students, and to determine whether or not there is a relationship between instrumental music participation and socioeconomic status. The differences between instrumental music participation groups were not found to be statistically significant for both the reading and mathematics FCAT 2.0 growth by high-SES status students, and for reading FCAT 2.0 growth by low-SES status students. The differences between groups were found to be significant for mathematics FCAT 2.0 growth by low-SES students, but a Tukey HSD post-hoc test found no significant differences between the individual groups. The study also found that high-SES students had a higher rate of instrumental music participation in sixth grade, and a lower attrition rate between sixth and seventh grade than the low-SES students.
Notes
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Graduation Date
2015
Semester
Summer
Advisor
Murray, Kenneth
Degree
Doctor of Education (Ed.D.)
College
College of Education and Human Performance
Department
Teaching, Learning, and Leadership
Degree Program
Education and Human Performance
Format
application/pdf
Identifier
CFE0005755
URL
http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/CFE0005755
Language
English
Release Date
August 2015
Length of Campus-only Access
None
Access Status
Doctoral Dissertation (Open Access)
Subjects
Dissertations, Academic -- Education and Human Performance; Education and Human Performance -- Dissertations, Academic
STARS Citation
Antmann, Michael, "Socioeconomic Status, Instrumental Music Participation, and Middle School Student Achievement" (2015). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 646.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/etd/646