SUMMARY: Experimental Study
This study focuses on the influence of music during learning to the academic performance. Aim to investigate how listening to music during learning influences the affective states of undergraduate students and their performance. It is hypothesized that learning with music would result in better exam performance due to the elicitation of positive affect. 249 undergraduates students were divided into a control group and an experimental group. Both groups attended the same multimedia presentation, with the addition of classical music for the experimental group. At the end of the lesson, both groups had to fill out a multiple choice questionnaire (MCQ) in order to assess their learning of the lesson. As a result, MCQ score of the experimental group was higher compared to the control group. However, the limitation is that their MCQ-score might have been influenced by prior knowledge of the students which was not assessed beforehand. In conclusion, this study could help us to have valuable insight on the influence of the learning environment on academic outcome.
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