The Effectiveness of Using Music as a Supplementary Learning Tool in Online Learning
M. Encarnacion, J. Loyola, C. Nuñez, C. Oconer, C. Odra, A. Reodica, M. Yabut
Quantitative Research, 2020
Abstract
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has pushed the country to resume classes through online learning, and as this utilizes PowerPoint presentations and virtual blackboards for teaching, online learning benefits visual learners more in comparison to tactile and auditory learners. With this, the research study aimed to help auditory learners, which according to research, constitute about 30% of the population, adjust to a new way of learning through integrating music in lessons. Its main objective was to find out the effectiveness of integrating the math song during online discussions to auditory learners’ retention. Their research locale consisted of grade eleven students from each strand from St. Theresa’s College, Quezon City, and they chose fourteen students from the forty-six auditory learners of their batch. The researchers created a lesson plan for the Logic lessons they would be teaching and sought the assistance of their former Mathematics teacher to ensure that the lesson plan was correct. They then wrote and composed a song that would assist students in their logic lessons, then sought the opinions and comments of their colleagues regarding the song to determine if the song was enjoyable to listen to. For the experiment, the researchers first discussed the lessons in the manner in which online classes are usually conducted, then the participants were made to take a pretest. The students then were given the song to listen to for twenty minutes, then they were made to take a posttest. After conducting the experiment, the researchers were able to determine that there is a significant difference between the pretest and posttest scores of the participants. The resulting p-value was smaller than the significance level with the p-value being 0.01885 and the significance level being 0.05. The researchers enumerated several factors that might have affected the results which are differences in intellectual capabilities, learning environment, technology limitations, minor variations (questions), teaching styles, varying attention span, and condition of the participants. In the end, the researchers accepted their alternative hypothesis which proves that their song “Logic: We’ll Make it Epic” increased the effectiveness of online distance learning for auditory learners.
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