Chapter Graphic : Musical Instruments
Trend Task
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  Level: Year 4 and year 8
Approach: Station 
Focus: Associating the sounds of musical instruments with pictures of them.
224k
Resources: Video recording on laptop computer.

Questions / instructions:
Click on the button that says Musical Instruments and watch the video that plays. The computer will tell you what to do.
If it doesn't, tell the teacher.

Put a number in the circle beside the instrument you hear.
The first one is done for you.

Drums
music 5
    
 
 
% responses
2000 ('96)
y4
y8
Clarinet
music 5
45 (44)
78 (79)
Guitar
music 3
27 (31)
26 (22)
Cello
music 7
21 (32)
51 (68)
Banjo
no music
Trombone
no music
Keyboard
music 2
85 (85)
96 (97)
Violin
1996 Version below
displayed smaller in task
music 4
42 (58)
80 (92)
Saxophone
music 6
71 (69)
92 (92)
Commentary:
For most instruments, year 8 students performed substantially better than year 4 students. The exception was for the guitar music selection, where a classical guitar piece fooled many of the students into identifying the instrument as a banjo. Unfortunately, a small change in the task between 1996 and 2000 makes the trend analysis unreliable, the size of the picture of the violin was increased in 2000. This clearly made it harder for students to distinguish the cello and violin. On the other instruments, there is no clear trend from 1996 to 2000.
 
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