A Fun and Easy Way to Assess Singing in Tune Ann C. Kay FMEA January 11, 2013

1. A Fun and Easy Way to Assess Singing in Tune Ann C. Kay FMEA January 11, 2013 The Great American Singing Challenge™

2. The Great American Singing Challenge ™A grassroots movement to get America singing

3. Let’s sing!

4. What Teachers Say • Motivating! Students were fascinated by and loved singing with the program. • Accuracy and motivation have gone through the roof with students who used it regularly. • Finally, a scientific way to measure/assess a student’s ability to sing in tune! • Some students came back again and again to try to improve their score. • Even shy students were willing to sing. • The software surprised many of my students who had been told by either a family or a friend “you can't sing". They were pleasantly surprised to find out that they could sing and were very good at it too! The software fostered a lot of pride in my students. • The families loved the Sing-Along.

5. Developing Singing in Third-Grade Music Classrooms: The Effect of a Concurrent-Feedback Computer Game on Pitch-Matching Skills • Dr. Andrew Paney, University of Mississippi • Ann C. Kay, Center for Lifelong Music Making • 2,021 third grade students; 30 music teachers • Students who practiced 1-5 times with SingingCoach made significantly larger increases in scores than those who only took pre- and post-tests. • Immediate, concurrent singing feedback may help young students experience musical growth over a relatively short period of time even, perhaps, when formal musical instruction time is limited. • Though girls sang better both in the pre-test and the post-test, boys saw a larger improvement over the course of the treatment. It may be that a score is a better motivator for boys than for girls. • The results of this large-scale study strongly support the effectiveness of the real-time, visual feedback provided by a computer.

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