A Study Of Evidence That Music Education Is A Positive Factorin K-8 Student Academic Achievement
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A Study Of Evidence That Music Education Is A Positive Factorin K-8 Student Academic Achievement
Abstract
Music Education in schools is a very important aspect of learning. Music provides students with a familiar background from which they can learn new things. Music is also a way for children to express themselves. The benefits of music education play a role in student's lives. They help them to communicate on a different level of thinking. Music in schools has been proven to help students with other classes such as math, and reading. Music also plays a part in pre-learning in premature babies. Overall the advantage of music education is greatly helpful to students and has a dramatic effect on their academic grades.
A Study of Evidence That Music Education Is a Positive Factor
In K-8 Student Academic Achievement
In a study performed in 1980 by a research firm, CEMEREL, Inc., they issued a report that stated "that in 67 specific studies made in California, student achievement in reading, writing and math improved when the arts were in included in curriculum" (Milley, Buchen, Okerlund &Mortarotti, 1983 pg 2). The arts are very imperative to a child's learning process. It allows the child to explore their reading, writing, math and learning potential in a way they could never imagine.
The world of the arts provides many rewards other than the ability to play an instrument, or perform in a play. It provides children with a new way of thinking and approaching obstacles in life. Academic achievements are one of the many opportunities that music education has to offer. In a statement by Horne, he states "High school music students have been shown to hold higher grade point averages (GPA) than non-musicians in the same school in 1981-82 study Mission Viejo High School in California (Horne, 1983 pg 2).
The presence of music education is not only benefiting children's lives at schools. It is also benefiting the lives of premature babies. Music aids in the pre-learning process and...
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