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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
