Elementary students' recognition and analysis of their own singing voices from digital recordings

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2006-12

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The purpose of this study was to assess elementary students' development and ability to recognize and analyze their own singing voices from a consumer quality digital recorder. In this study the first through third grades were chosen to learn and individually record an age-appropriate song chosen from their curriculum. Students then listened to three different voices to determine which one was theirs. Next they listened to their voices again and were asked, "Did you sing the melody correctly?", "Did you sing the rhythm correctly?" and "Did you start on the correct singing note?" Students' self-analysis of their own singing voices were then tested against the researchers analysis of their voices. Results indicated that second and third graders were able to analyze themselves more accurately than first graders. Results also indicated that although only half of the students performed their songs accurately, the majority of them could correctly assess their singing accuracy.

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