Oats, Peas, Beans, and Early Literacy Skills Grow: A Program Evaluation of Education Through Music

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dc.contributor.advisorAtlas, Jana
dc.contributor.authorLehman, Laura Diane
dc.date.accessioned2019-05-01T17:49:09Z
dc.date.available2019-05-01T17:49:09Z
dc.date.issued2019-04
dc.descriptionDissertation completed in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Doctor of Psychology degree in School Psychology at Alfred University, Alfred, NY.en_US
dc.description.abstractThe acquisition of literacy skills is a complex and multi-faceted process that begins long before typical school-based literacy instruction. The present study sought to examine and expand research regarding the independent and interactive contributions of neuropsychological development, movement, play, and music on the development of literacy skills. The current study investigated Education Through Music, a play-based music-education program that incorporated all of these elements, to determine if their use in an everyday classroom environment impacted literacy-skill development, in particular phonological awareness. Participants included 76 (35 girls, 41 boys) typically-developing, native English-speaking kindergarten students from a school district located in Northern California. Phonological awareness skills were measured at four time periods over the course of a school year using the Phonological Awareness Test 2. Relative to non-music-oriented classroom controls, students participating in Education Through Music classrooms demonstrated significantly higher performance in the areas of segmentation (i.e., using sentences, syllables, and phonemes) as well as rhyming production. Results provide initial support for the use of vocal music in the classroom as it relates to early literacy skill development.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10829/23373
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.relation.ispartofHerrick Libraryen_US
dc.rights.urihttps://libraries.alfred.edu/AURA/termsofuseen_US
dc.subjectReading instructionen_US
dc.subjectMusic educationen_US
dc.subjectEducational psychologyen_US
dc.titleOats, Peas, Beans, and Early Literacy Skills Grow: A Program Evaluation of Education Through Musicen_US
dc.typeDissertationen_US

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