EFFECT OF MUSIC ON STUDENT CONCENTRATION RE

The problem, however, with the existing research on the benefits of music is according to Campbell (2002), the fact that a good deal of the studies showing benefits to students from music have not been well controlled. The research proposed here focuses on investigating one claim as to the benefits of music, namely that it increases student concentration. The proposed research will add to the existing literature in that attempts will be made to determine the validity of this claim using controlled experimental methods.

The effects of music on concentration are, at best, mixed. Barr, Ditmar, Roberts and Sheraden (2002) found that by teaching students how to concentrate on music, they found that students' general ability to concentrate

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om assignment to experimental and control conditions which assures that all subjects had an equal chance of being in any condition irrespective of any personal qualities or characteristics. It is through manipulation of the independent variable and random assignment to conditions that an experimental can identify and describe causal relationships because the control exerted by the experimental design allows the experimenter to determine whether changes in the independent variable produced changes in the dependent variable. The proposed research can be said to be experimental in nature which is to say that the Treatment Variable (Music and No Music) is manipulated by the experimenter. Moreover, sample subjects are randomly selected and randomly assigned to either the experimental or control groups. Subject Selection Procedures (Sampling) All subjects in the study will be sixth grade students attending a local elementary school. Once the principal grants permission to conduct the study, a list of all sixth grade, non-special education students (having no IEPs), will be drawn up and numbered. This list will be cross-tabulated by gender. A random numbers table will then be used to randomly select 40 students, 20 of which are ma
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