Effectiveness of listening to background music on recall ability among high school students

Abstract

Background: Background music refers to music played during some activity by the listener. There are few studies which evaluated the effect of music therapy on academic performance and this impact was not taken into account high school students. The aim of this study was thus to deal with this imbalance by evaluated its effect on cognitive tasks of declarative memory and speed of processing in high school student with the help of background music. Objectives: To evaluate the recall ability of high school students from the influence of background music and associate the efficacy of background music with high school pupils’ ability to remember with selected demographic variables Methods: The study was performed on 60 randomly selected high school students using a random sampling technique, the organized interview schedule was used to collect the demographic characteristics and nonsense word test used to check their recall skills. Results: The overall comparison of test 1 and test 2 shows that the tabulated value for n=60-1 i.e. 59 d.f. is 2.00 which value is lower than estimated i.e. 11.98 at 5% level of significance for overall non-sense test score which is a statistically acceptable level of significance. A significant association was found between listening to background music on recall ability of high school students with selected variables such as age, sex, and area of residence. Conclusion: We conclude therefore that background music on high school student’s ability to recall was effective.