上海充通大 SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY MUSIC INSTRUMENTS'BOOST IN COLLEGEN STUDENTS' ACADEMICPERFORMANCE FU SHANGYANG,XU JINQING,HONG YINING An Article Submitted to Prof.Li Zhang For the Course of Academic Communication in English 2017.1.1 1/14
1 / 14 MUSIC INSTRUMENTS’BOOST IN COLLEGENSTUDENTS’ ACADEMICPERFORMANCE FU SHANGYANG,XU JINQING,HONG YINING An Article Submitted to Prof. Li Zhang For the Course of Academic Communication in English 2017.1.1
Music Instruments'Boost in College Students' Academic Performance Fu ShangYang(1),Xu JinQing(2),Hong YiNing(3) (1)School of Mechanical Engineering,Shanghai Jiao Tong University (2)School of Electronic,Information and Electrical Engineering,ShanghaiJiao Tong University (3)School of Electronic,Informationand Electrical Engineering,ShanghaiJiao Tong University Abstract::(付尚扬) It has been widely accepted that playing musical instruments has a positive effect on human's mind and also plenty of research supports this statement.However,little attempt has been made to investigate how musical instruments boost academic performance,especially in the long term.By using questionnaires to collect information about students'school marks and also giving interviews to get their subjective feelings,we show that musical instruments can help college students of liberal arts achieve better academic performance while their influence is much slighter on students of science and engineering.The findings suggest that musical instruments can improve students'memory but can hardly help them in Maths.The research provides a new perspective on how musical instruments can help students in their academic performance. Keywords: Musical instruments;Academic performance;Questionnaire;Interview;Memory; 2/14
2 / 14 Music Instruments’Boost in College Students’ Academic Performance Fu ShangYang(1),Xu JinQing(2),Hong YiNing(3) (1) School of Mechanical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao TongUniversity (2) School of Electronic, Informationand Electrical Engineering, ShanghaiJiao TongUniversity (3) School of Electronic, Informationand Electrical Engineering, ShanghaiJiao TongUniversity Abstract: (付尚扬) It has been widely accepted that playing musical instruments has a positive effect on human’s mind and also plenty of research supports this statement. However, little attempt has been made to investigate how musical instruments boost academic performance, especially in the long term. By using questionnaires to collect information about students’ school marks and also giving interviews to get theirsubjective feelings, we show that musical instruments can help college students of liberal arts achieve better academic performance while their influence is much slighter on students of science and engineering. The findings suggest that musical instruments can improve students’ memory but can hardly help them in Maths. The research provides a new perspective on how musical instruments can help students in their academic performance. Keywords: Musical instruments; Academicperformance;Questionnaire; Interview;Memory;
Table of Contents: 1 Introduction.. .5 2 literature review.… 6 2.1 Music instruments and academic performance............ .6 2.2 Music instruments'influence on different areas of learning..... 6 2.3 Some defects in done researches.................... 7 3 Method. 3.1 Using questionnaires to collect objective facts of students ........ .7 3.2 Using interviews to collect subjective feelings of students..........................8 4 Result .9 4.1 Musical instruments help students of liberal arts achieve better academic performance 9 4.2 Musical instruments have slight influence on students of scence and engineering..........9 4.3findings of the interviews.........10 5 Discussion.... 11 5.1Explanations of the findings.11 5.2Importance of the findings11 5.3 Comparison with previous research..... 11 5.4Alternative explanations of the findings. 11 6Conclusion .12 6.1Summary of objectives and approaches of this paper.1 6.2 Major findings of this paper .......... 12 6.3Important implications of this paper's findings 12 6.4 Future work needed in the field.................. 2 7Reference.... .13 8 About the authors… 14 3/14
3 / 14 Table of Contents: 1 Introduction....................................................................................................................5 2 literature review.............................................................................................................6 2.1 Music instruments and academic performance.................................................................. 6 2.2 Music instruments’ influence on different areas of learning............................................... 6 2.3 Some defects in done researches......................................................................................7 3 Method.............................................................................................................................7 3.1 Using questionnaires to collect objective facts of students ............................................ 7 3.2 Using interviews to collect subjective feelings of students ............................................. 8 4 Result .............................................................................................................................9 4.1 Musical instruments help students of liberal arts achieve better academic performance 9 4.2 Musical instruments have slight influence on students of science and engineering.......... 9 4.3 findings of the interviews ........................................................................................... 10 5 Discussion....................................................................................................................11 5.1 Explanations of the findings ....................................................................................... 11 5.2 Importance of the findings.......................................................................................... 11 5.3 Comparison with previous research............................................................................. 11 5.4 Alternative explanations of the findings...................................................................... 11 6 Conclusion ...................................................................................................................12 6.1 Summary of objectives and approaches of this paper................................................... 12 6.2 Major findings of this paper ....................................................................................... 12 6.3 Important implications of this paper’s findings............................................................ 12 6.4 Future work needed in the field.................................................................................. 12 7 Reference......................................................................................................................13 8 About the authors .......................................................................................................14
List of Figures Fig.1 Grade ranking of students who major in liberal arts Fig.2 Grade ranking of students who major in science and engineering 4/14
4 / 14 List of Figures Fig.1 Grade ranking ofstudents whomajorin liberalarts Fig.2 Grade ranking ofstudents whomajorin scienceand engineering
1 Introduction:(徐瑾卿) It's a common phenomenon that children having the experience of playing music instruments can probably have better academic performance,and that's why many parents cannot wait to expose their children to instruments.Recent researches have supported this standpoint by showing that music instruments do have a positive impact on intelligence.However,what kind of effects music instruments can have on children in the long term is still unclear.In our project,we have chosen college students with the experience of playing music instruments since childhood as subjects investigated and separated students of liberal arts from those of science and engineering to find the difference of effects on memory and Mathematics. 5/14
5 / 14 1 Introduction:（徐瑾卿） It’s a common phenomenon that children having the experience of playing music instruments can probably have better academic performance, and that’s why many parents cannot wait to expose their children to instruments. Recent researches have supported this standpoint by showing that music instruments do have a positive impact on intelligence. However, what kind of effects music instruments can have on children in the long term is still unclear. In our project, we have chosen college students with the experience of playing music instruments since childhood as subjects investigated and separated students of liberal arts from those of science and engineering to find the difference of effects on memory and Mathematics