Background music
Overview
- Influence: Background music
- Domain: Teaching Strategies
- Sub-Domain: Instructional strategies
- Potential to Accelerate Student Achievement: Likely to have a small positive impact
- Influence Definition: This relates to playing background music while students are working. Most often it involves low-decibel, instrumental/non-popular background music with an intention to decrease pulse rate, improve classroom behavior, and improve performance on learning tasks.
Evidence
- Number of meta-analyses: 2
- Number of studies: 79
- Number of students: 3,104
- Number of effects: 79
- Weighted mean effect size: 0.08
- Robustness index: 2
Meta-Analyses
| Journal Title | Author | First Author's Country | Article Name | Year Published | Variable | Number of Studies | Number of Students | Number of Effects | Effect Size |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Psychology of Music | Kampfe, Sedlmeier, & Renkewitz | Germany | The impact of background music on adult listeners: A meta-analysis | 2011 | Music as background | 43 | 3,104 | 43 | -0.04 |
| Journal of Aesthetic Education | Hetland | USA | Listening to music enhances spatial-temporal reasoning: Evidence for the "Mozart Effect". | 2000 | Listening to music | 36 | 0 | 36 | 0.23 |
| TOTAL/AVERAGE | 79 | 3,104 | 79 | 0.10 | |||||