A Study on Design and Measurement of an Aural-Visual Tonal Test for Sixth Graders in Taipei City

• Main Authors: Hsuan-Wen Juan, 阮璿文
• Other Authors: Chuang, Wuei-Chun
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2015
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/8ny37j

碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 音樂學系 === 103 === This research aims to design a reliable and valid aural-visual tonal test for sixth graders in Taipei City. The differences of the music aural-visual discrimination abilities between the female and male students with different musical backgrounds were analyzed and discussed. The test was designed by the researcher and reviewed by music experts. The content of the test was based on the textbooks and national music standards. Before 340 sixth graders in Taipei City joined this study, this music test had been applied to 73 sixth graders and was revised in the pilot study. The results are as follows: 1. This aural-visual tonal test was proved to be a test with good validity and reliability. The item difficulty and discrimination power of each test item were well-designed. 2. Students could identify melodic contours better than intervals . 3. There was not much difference for students to identify melodic contour thru figures or precise notations. To recognize the ranges of music was easier than to identify the precise pitches of the music for students. 4. Students performed differently on music coutour discrimination according to different aural and visual inputs of the test. 5. For contour discrimination, students had more correct responds for upward melodies than downward melodies. Moreover, students performed better on the upward-to-downward than downward-to-upward music statements. 6. For interval discrimination, identifying notations of smaller intervals were easier for students. 7. For interval discrimination, students might give the answers based on the melodic ranges of proceeding music. 8. There was no significant difference between genders. 9. Students performed differently according to their musical backgrounds. Many suggestions based on the results were given for educators, government, textbook editors, and researchers in the future. Keywords: music test, melody perception, aural-visual discrimination