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Does the type of music affect test scores for students?

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16 Students, 4 per grade level 9-12 at Mountain Ridge.

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Ask kids if they listen to music while studying and if the music has lyrics. I would have two kids for lyrics and 2 kids for no lyrics, per grade level.

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I would give the students 20 words to memorize over the course of 10 minutes with no music. After the 10 minutes, they would write the words down and only count for correctly spelled words. I would go back to them two weeks later with another set of 20 words and ask them to study the new words while listening to their preferred style of music and have them take the quiz again.

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My explanatory variable is what type of music each person listens to.

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My response variable will be how many words more the student was able to score while listening to the music.

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My control group is the first initial test all the students do without listening to music.

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The blind in the study is the initial test of everyone not listening to music and memorizing words. They didn’t get a result number and were given a lot of time in between tests to try and not make them be competitive with the old number that they got removing an outside factor from the equation.

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I made sure that there was an equal amount of non-lyric listeners and lyric listeners per grade level throughout the experiment so more results were not recorded for one side.

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I could have matched students with a genre of music or gender to this experiment but I fell as it would’ve overcomplicated the results.

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Crossover design could be used for this experiment but I would rather have the test subjects listen to the type of music that they would prefer to listen to instead of forcing them to listen to something opposite of their taste

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My sample size is 16 which yields a margin of error at 25%. This could be lower if I conducted the experiment with more test subjects.

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You could do the experiment over and over again with new students to see if the results stayed relatively the same or if they changed

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With my study, I found that students that didn’t listen to music while studying the words on average of 5.4 words memorized. The kids in the next round of testing that we’re listening to music with lyrics scored higher by 2.75 words on average while the group that listened to music with no lyrics scored higher by 3.5 words on average. Statistically, I think music without lyrics is a more beneficial way to study than without any music at all but replication of this process can be used to further prove the results found correct.