The effect of background music played on the multiple intelligence fields in 6 years

Elif Erol () and Ercan MERTOÄžLU ()
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Ercan MERTOÄžLU: Cagev

Eurasian Education & Literature Journal, 2015, vol. 1, issue 1, 10-30

Abstract: This research was carried out in order to examine the effect of background music on the multiple intelligence fields of 60 children who were aged 6 and attending to a pre-school education institution in Istanbul in the 2009 ? 2010 academic year. The research is an example of the experimental design. The working group of the study was made up of a total of 60 children who were aged 6 and selected from 4 different nursery classes of elementary schools in Istanbul. 30 children from two nursery classes constitute the experimental group and 30 children from two nursery classes constitute the control group. In the research, the experimental group listened to Largo musics of the Baroque era as the background music for an average of three hours five days a week for two months. The Mann Whitney U Test was used while comparing the experimental and control groups. According to surveys,students in experiment group, TIMI multiple intellegence scale's mucic, kinesthetic, mathematic and interpersonal intellegence, points which they took from these sub last test points have been found more significant high than pre testing points. In addition, students in experiment group, points which they took from sub test of last test points in TIMI multiple intellegence scales mathematic, music and interpersonal intellegence have been found significant level higher than students in control group who got same sub test's last points.

Date: 2015
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