Eighth-grade students taught with Mapping the Beat music workshops showed greater growth in geographic knowledge than control students (effect size=.854)¶
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q3 i3 Treatment students gained 6.27 more NCGE points than controls when controlling for pre-score and covariates, a large effect (0.854). → Richardson 2013
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Richardson 2013¶
Richardson, Ronald; Brouillette, Liane. (2013). Historic and Ethnic Music Found to Increase Geographic Understanding: A Quasi-Experimental Study. Journal for Learning through the Arts, 9(1). http://escholarship.org/uc/item/71g4x3cr
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Quasi-experimental study of 215 eighth-graders (84 control, 131 treatment) at one suburban California middle school, with ANCOVA controlling for pre-score, ethnicity, GATE and lunch status. The article reports the treatment advantage of 6.27 points, "statistically significant at P=<0.0001", and an effect size of 0.854 for the NCGE.
"when controlling for all other categories included in the column labeled “Term,” on the 52-question NCGE the mean score for students in the treatment group was 6.27 points higher than the score for students in the control group. This is statistically significant at P=<0.0001"
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Related Claims¶
- Music workshop students developed more positive geography-related attitudes than controls (effect size=.569) — related
- 95% of treatment students improved on the NCGE versus 32% of controls, and negative change was rarer in the treatment group — related
- No statistically significant difference in geographic concepts acquisition attributable to gender — related
- Eighth-grade students taught geography with Web Quest Strategy scored significantly higher on a geographic concepts acquisition test than students taught by the traditional method — related
- The treatment effect on attitudes held after controlling for demographic covariates, with GATE students gaining more on both measures — related
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