1. Jessica Mandell CBSE 7202 Spring 2017
Music In The Classroom
Jessica Mandell
CBSE 7202
Spring 2017

2. Table of Contents Research Hypothesis … Slide 3
Research Design … Slide 4
Proposed Data … Slide 5
Threats to Internal Validity … Slide 6
Threats to External Validity … Slide 7
Pre-test/ Post-test Results … Slide 8
Student Survey … Slide 9
Proposed Data Analysis and Correlation … Slide 10
References … Slide 11

3. Research Hypothesis
Integrating music activities within literacy classroom instruction over a period of time, for cumulative twenty minutes per week (diversified times), to fifteen Kindergarten students at Public School X in Brooklyn, New York, will increase their academic achievement and overall literacy test scores.

4. Research Design Pre-Experimental Design
One group of 15 non-randomly assigned students, with no controlled group. This experimental design may also be referenced as the One-Group Pre-test/ Post-test Design.
Symbolic Design: OXO
The single group of participants (O) will be pre-tested before being given the treatment (X), and a post-tested (O) in order to determine the experiment’s success.

5. Proposed Data
Pre-test and Post-test: Teacher administers a pre-test at the beginning of the lesson. Teacher will then administer the lesson, and give the children the same test as a post-test to see what knowledge has been obtained through the lesson with the aid of the treatment.
Student Survey: Teacher gives each student the same survey which looks at personal opinions, student habits, and student demographic data.

6. Threats to Internal Validity
History
Maturation
Instrumentation
Morality
Differential Selection of Subjects
Selection-Maturation Interaction
Generalizable Conditions

7. Threats to External Validity
Pre-test Treatment
Specificity of Variables
Experimenter Effects

8. Pre-test/ Post-test Results
Student Pre-test/ Post-test Test Data
Test Grades
Students
Pre-test median: 2
Pre-test mean:
Post-test median: 3
Post-test mean:

9. Sample Student Survey

10. Proposed Data Analysis and Correlation
rxy=.42
It is higher than .3, therefore it is correlated.
Music helps the students focus while they work

11. References
O’Connor-Petruso, S. (2010). Descriptive Statistics Threats to Validity [PowerPoint slides]. Retrieved from: