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Background Music: Tim Jones 75 Figure 5. Arithmetic (Furnham & Strbac, 2002) All three tasks showed the best performance in a silent environment, with the introverts performance dropping significantly more than the extroverts performance in the music and noise environments. Therefore, according to this study, personality type plays a role in the effects of background music on learning. Music Preferences The musical preference of the learners was another factor studied in an article in Educational Psychology (2006). In the article “The Cognitive and Academic Benefits of Music to Children: Facts and Fiction”, several studies were researched. Although these studies were conducted primarily on children, the overall conclusion was that positive moods facilitate optimum task performance, while negative moods disrupt performance. This points directly to the practicality of playing music that is Innovation and Empowerment: SNU-Tulsa Research Journal, Volume 1, Issue 1
Background Music: Tim Jones 76 enjoyable to the learner, to achieve the maximum benefits in task performance (Črnčec, Prior, & Wilson, 2006). Conclusion Much time and effort has been devoted to defining the role that music plays in learning. In looking at the previous research, a common element is clear even though the results of the studies vary greatly. This collective interpretation is stated plainly in a study in Montessori Life: A publication of the American Montessori Society (2005). It simply says that music enhances learning by focusing and ordering the mind (Jones, 2005, p.42). Jones goes on to explain that music basically trains the brain to order itself.(p. 43). By taking into consideration the data from this article, and other previous research, this project will attempt to apply some of the same principles of the effects of background music on learning, to an adult training room situation. Methods Hypothesis This study was conducted to determine the effects of background music on the test scores of Spirit Aerosystems employees in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The expected outcome of this study was that the playing of low-volume classical music by composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, during normal certification testing, Innovation and Empowerment: SNU-Tulsa Research Journal, Volume 1, Issue 1
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