Effect of Music on Grades of Students
Effects of Music On the Grades Of Students Anas Rashid, Ali Rehan Quraishi, Farhan Javed, Usman Talat butt, Maira Akram, Hina Jabbar, Safina Waheed, Hamza Mansoor
Abstract
The purpose of our study is to investigate the effects of music on student’s grades in Mathematics, Statistics and Accounting. And also investigate student wants to take lecture and give exam with music. Music has been found to have profound effect on the brain. Psychologists and scientists have been looking at the link between music, with mood, work efficiency and concentration for years. In our experiment, we hope to find a correlation or regression between music and its effect on studies and grades. 400 students were selected randomly from the different universities. As everybody in his life ever tried to use music during his studies so we wanted to know its effects. We used a questionnaire for that task. Different socio cultural peoples were used but main three parts was comprised into our questionnaire. Firstly we tried to know that how much students had ever taken lecture or given exam with music. Our first part was “introduction” in which we got to know that how much students know about music and its type and which type of music they prefer to listen. Second part “objective” is back born of our questionnaire because it contains the question of is students like to listen music during lecture, homework or in exams and in which subject they prefer to listen music. Does the music effect their studies and if yes then the effect is positive or negative in their opinion. Third part contains the questions of “Suggestion” in which they recommend that music should be used in lecture and exams or not. They told us that music can increase their performance in math or not and relationship between music and math. We get their opinion on that they are satisfied with grades of those subjects in which they used music. At the end they told us their grades which helped us to reach at a conclusion.
Abstract
The purpose of our study is to investigate the effects of music on student’s grades in Mathematics, Statistics and Accounting. And also investigate student wants to take lecture and give exam with music. Music has been found to have profound effect on the brain. Psychologists and scientists have been looking at the link between music, with mood, work efficiency and concentration for years. In our experiment, we hope to find a correlation or regression between music and its effect on studies and grades. 400 students were selected randomly from the different universities. As everybody in his life ever tried to use music during his studies so we wanted to know its effects. We used a questionnaire for that task. Different socio cultural peoples were used but main three parts was comprised into our questionnaire. Firstly we tried to know that how much students had ever taken lecture or given exam with music. Our first part was “introduction” in which we got to know that how much students know about music and its type and which type of music they prefer to listen. Second part “objective” is back born of our questionnaire because it contains the question of is students like to listen music during lecture, homework or in exams and in which subject they prefer to listen music. Does the music effect their studies and if yes then the effect is positive or negative in their opinion. Third part contains the questions of “Suggestion” in which they recommend that music should be used in lecture and exams or not. They told us that music can increase their performance in math or not and relationship between music and math. We get their opinion on that they are satisfied with grades of those subjects in which they used music. At the end they told us their grades which helped us to reach at a conclusion.
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