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ERIC Number: EJ1183312
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2017
Pages: 14
Abstractor: ERIC
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ISSN: EISSN-2379-9021
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The 21st Century Elementary Music Classroom and the Digital Music Curriculum: A Synergism of Technology and Traditional Pedagogy
Murillo, Robert E.
Texas Music Education Research, p14-27 2017
The purpose of this study was to investigate teachers' perceptions about the viability and benefit of using a digital music curriculum in the elementary music classroom. A survey was created that focused on three leading digital curricula providers: PK-5/8: "Quaver's Marvelous World of Music®", "MusicPlay Online®" by Themes and Variations, and Silver Burdett's "Interactive Music®" by Pearson and Alfred. An online survey created in Google Forms was emailed in November 2016 and, again, in January 2017 to over 400 Texas elementary music educators that subscribed to digital curricula in and around Dallas, Houston, and Fort Worth. The survey consisted of three sections: 1) General Information of Educator (5 questions), 2) School and Classroom Information (3 questions), and 3) Digital Music Curriculum and Resources (14 questions). The final section allowed participants to provide further feedback about their prescribed digital curriculum. The survey took between 4 and 7 minutes to complete. Music educators believe that the digital music curriculum is a viable method of instruction in classrooms, benefiting their instruction and their students' learning, as there was an overall 71.9% of regular usage and a reported 73.3% of improvement of student and teacher performance. Additionally, the data reflected alignment with both music education standards (95.8%) and traditional methodology (84.7%). Participants in this study viewed the online digital music curriculum as viable for the music program and beneficial to the classroom.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Tests/Questionnaires; Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Texas (Houston); Texas (Dallas); Texas (Fort Worth)
Identifiers - Laws, Policies, & Programs: No Child Left Behind Act 2001
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