{"id":172,"date":"2009-01-30T19:33:03","date_gmt":"2009-01-31T00:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/healingmusicenterprises.com\/blog\/?p=172"},"modified":"2016-01-27T11:41:19","modified_gmt":"2016-01-27T16:41:19","slug":"can-music-improve-test-scores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/healingmusicenterprises.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/can-music-improve-test-scores\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Music Improve Test Scores?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"post-title entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/the-brain-and-music.blogspot.com\/2009\/01\/improving-test-scores-with-music.html\">Improving Test Scores with Music<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"post-body entry-content\"><\/div>\n<div>When I go out to speak to teachers, parents, and education administrators, I usually tell them that a\u00a0simple way students can improve test scores is by listening to certain types of music such as <span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">Mozart&#8217;s Sonata for Two Piano&#8217;s in D Major<\/span> before taking a test. This type of music releases neuro-hormones in the brain which help the body to relax. The effectiveness of Mozart&#8217;s sonatas can be seen by the results from an IQ test performed on three groups of college students. The first group listened to a Mozart sonata before taking the test. The second group listened to a relaxation tape before their test. The third group did not listen to anything before the test. The first group had the highest score with an average of 119. The second group ended up with an average of 111, and the third group had the lowest score with an average of 110.<br \/>\nWilliam Balach, Kelly Bowman, and Lauri Mohler, all from Pennsylvania State University, studied the effects of music genre and tempo on memory retention. They had four groups learn vocabulary words using one of four instrumental pieces &#8211; slow classical, slow jazz, fast classical, and fast jazz. Each of the four groups was divided into smaller groups for the recall test. These sub groups used either the same (i.e. slow classical, slow classical) or different (i.e. slow jazz, fast classical) pieces when taking the recall test. The results did show a dependency on the music. Recall was better when the music was the same during learning and testing. These same researchers did another test which restricted the changes in the music to just tempo (i.e. slow to fast jazz) or just genre (i.e. slow jazz to slow classical). Surprisingly, the results showed that changing the genre had no effect on recall but changing the tempo decreased recall.<br \/>\nfor more info, see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cerebromente.org.br\/n15\/mente\/musica.html\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">http:\/\/www.cerebromente.org.br\/n15\/mente\/musica.html<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Improving Test Scores with Music When I go out to speak to teachers, parents, and education administrators, I usually tell them that a\u00a0simple way students can improve test scores is by listening to certain types of music such as Mozart&#8217;s Sonata for Two Piano&#8217;s in D Major before taking a test. 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