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EJ633368 PS532052

Title: Classroom Keyboard Instruction Improves Kindergarten Children's Spatial-Temporal Performance: A Field Experiment.
Author(s): Rauscher, Frances H.; Zupan, Mary Anne
Source: Early Childhood Research Quarterly, v15 n2 p215-28 2000
Publication Date: 2000
ISSN: 0885-2006
Language: English
Document Type: Journal articles (080); Reports--Research (143)
Journal Announcement: CIJMAR2002

Determined the effects of classroom music instruction featuring the keyboard on the spatial-temporal reasoning of 62 kindergartners assigned to keyboard or no music conditions. Found that the keyboard group scored significantly higher than the no music group on both spatial-temporal tasks after 4 months of lessons, a difference that was greater in magnitude after 8 months. (Author/HTH)

Descriptors: Cognitive Processes; Kindergarten; *Kindergarten Children; *Music Education; Performance Factors; Pretests Posttests; *Spatial Ability; Student Improvement; *Thinking Skills; Time Perspective
Identifiers: *Pianos

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