Digital media in the teaching of music education

• Authors: Rajko Pećanac , Biljana Jeremić , Zivorad Milenović

Abstracts

EN

The paper examines the contribution of learning with the help of digital media to the quality of students’ knowledge when getting acquainted with the basics of musical literacy in the teaching of Music Education in lower primary school grades (school year 2013/14, a sample of 78 fourth grade students from Serbia E = 39; C = 39). The research results have shown that the students from the experimental group (M = 4.05; SD =.972) achieved better results in musical literacy in the final test by learning with the help of digital media, for this kind of work compared to the students from the control group (M = 3.15, SD = 1.309), who learned in the traditional way: t (78) = -3.438; average difference = -0.897; 95% CI: from -1.418 to -0.377; η = 0.134.

Keywords

EN

educational technology; innovative teaching; musical literacy

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek
• Journal: The New Educational Review
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 43
• Pages: 236-247

Dates

published

2016

Contributors

author

Rajko Pećanac

author

Biljana Jeremić

author

Zivorad Milenović

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Identifiers

DOI

10.15804/tner.2016.43.1.20

Biblioteka Nauki

2005014