A Fun and Easy Way to Assess Singing in Tune The Great American Ann C. Kay FMEA January 11, 2013 The Great American Singing Challenge™

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What Teachers Say Motivating! Students were fascinated by and loved singing with the program. Accuracy and motivation have gone through the roof with students who used it regularly. Finally, a scientific way to measure/assess a student’s ability to sing in tune! Some students came back again and again to try to improve their score. Even shy students were willing to sing. The software surprised many of my students who had been told by either a family or a friend “you can't sing". They were pleasantly surprised to find out that they could sing and were very good at it too! The software fostered a lot of pride in my students. The families loved the Sing-Along.

Dr. Andrew Paney, University of Mississippi Developing Singing in Third-Grade Music Classrooms: The Effect of a Concurrent-Feedback Computer Game on Pitch-Matching Skills Dr. Andrew Paney, University of Mississippi Ann C. Kay, Center for Lifelong Music Making 2,021 third grade students; 30 music teachers Students who practiced 1-5 times with SingingCoach made significantly larger increases in scores than those who only took pre- and post-tests. Immediate, concurrent singing feedback may help young students experience musical growth over a relatively short period of time even, perhaps, when formal musical instruction time is limited. Though girls sang better both in the pre-test and the post-test, boys saw a larger improvement over the course of the treatment. It may be that a score is a better motivator for boys than for girls. The results of this large-scale study strongly support the effectiveness of the real-time, visual feedback provided by a computer.

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