Digital media in the teaching of music education

Abstract

The paper examines the contribution of learning withthe help of digital media to the quality of students’ knowledge when getting acquainted withthe basics of musical literacy in the teaching of Music Education in lower primary school grades (school year 2013/14, a sample of 78 fourthgrade students from Serbia E = 39; C = 39). The research results have shown that the students from the experimental group (M = 4.05; SD = .972) achieved better results in musical literacy in the final test by learning withthe help of digital media, for this kind of work compared to the students from the control group (M = 3.15, SD = 1.309), who learned in the traditional way: t (78) = -3.438; average difference = -0.897; 95% CI: from -1.418 to -0.377; η = 0.134.