Date
9-2016
Department
School of Education
Degree
Doctor of Education (EdD)
Chair
Barbara Boothe
Keywords
Attitudes, Math, Middle School Students, Music
Disciplines
Curriculum and Social Inquiry | Education | Educational Assessment, Evaluation, and Research | Educational Methods | Educational Psychology | Other Education
Recommended Citation
Lowe, Glen, "Eighth Grade Perspectives: The Relationship Between Students’ Attitudes Towards Math and Students’ Attitudes Toward Music" (2016). Doctoral Dissertations and Projects. 1272.
https://digitalcommons.liberty.edu/doctoral/1272
Abstract
Being successful in math is considered to be important for future employability, and music may be an important venue for students to improve their math skills. Rather than being unrelated, strong musical education programs have been linked to higher performance in math and academics in general. The purpose of this correlational study was to determine whether a statistically significant relationship exists between students’ attitudes toward math and their attitudes toward music with regard to gender. A convenience sample of 107 eighth grade students from a metropolitan Atlanta, Georgia school district participated in two surveys: Tapia’s Attitude Toward Mathematics Inventory (ATMI) and Shaw and Tomcala’s Music Attitudes Inventory (MAI). Pearson correlations were utilized to test three null hypotheses to describe students’ attitudes toward math and music with regard to gender. No statistically significant relationship was found between students’ attitudes towards math and music. It was concluded that further research is needed to expand the sample to include sixth, seventh, and eighth grade students instead of just eighth grade students.
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