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Mona Listen: A Web-Based Ear Training Module for Musical Pitch Discrimination of Melodic Intervals
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, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, United States

E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education, in Washington, DC, USA ISBN 978-1-880094-54-9 Publisher: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE), San Diego, CA

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This study investigated the effects of Web-based pitch discrimination training on college music students' achievement in melodic interval discrimination. Mona Listen, a Web-based learning module for pitch discrimination, was developed as a training and data collection tool for the study. Practice records, participants' feedback, and achievement scores of pretest, posttest and follow-up posttest served as the data for a repeated measure design study. Data analyses were conducted using t-test and analysis of variance. Focus-group interview provided additional data not collected with the online instrument. The findings of the study indicated that: (a) Web-based pitch discrimination training had an overall positive effect on achievement in melodic interval discrimination, and (b) the amount of time spent was not a good predictor of achievement due to other possible underlying factors.

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Loh, C. (2004). Mona Listen: A Web-Based Ear Training Module for Musical Pitch Discrimination of Melodic Intervals. In J. Nall & R. Robson (Eds.), Proceedings of E-Learn 2004--World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education (pp. 2026-2032). Washington, DC, USA: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). Retrieved March 6, 2021 from .

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