

She cited examples of how the students would remember the things that they had been taught with Quaver.


The music teacher found the students engaged because of the Quaver curriculum. The clear majority of the participants in this study had positive comments and attitudes about the impact they perceived the Quaver curriculum to have had on enjoyment of music, interaction and engagement, musical self-efficacy, and retention of knowledge. All participants in the study participated in elementary general music the year Quaver was implemented and the year prior to the implementation. Fifty-four students from Grade 4-6, the music teacher, and the principal at a private elementary school in the southern United States participated in the study, which included a survey for all the students, focus group interviews of 4 students from each grade level, a teacher interview, and a principal interview. The purpose of the study was to examine the impact on the students' musical self-efficacy, interactive engagement, enjoyment of music class, and retention of knowledge.
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Quaver's Marvelous World of Music is a software music curriculum designed to be used in Grades K-8. This case study examined the impact of Quaver's Marvelous World of Music on an elementary school music program.
