Music Curriculum Guidelines for Moderately Retarded Adolescents

Abstract: This project was designed to create and implement music curriculum guidelines for moderately retarded adolescents ages 12 to 17. Specific goals were to: (1) devise a set of music curriculum guidelines appropriate to the needs and abilities of moderately retarded adolescents in an appropriate educational setting; and (2) provide students with the basic musical skills and knowledge necessary for generalization of musical enjoyment to other areas of their lives. Students praticipating in the project were 29 moderately retarded adolescents ages 12 to 17. Ten students participated in Experimental Group 1, and nine students participated in Experimental Group 2. The remaining 10 students comprised the control group. The two experimental groups were exposed to randomly selected Level 1 Music Curriculum Guidelines throughout the two 4-week testing/implementation sessions; the control group experienced music activities unrelated to the guidelines being implemented in the Experimental Groups. All students completed a pretest and posttest for each testing/implementation session. The pretest and posttest scores of the control and experimental groups were analyzed using a test for significance of difference between two proportions. Both experimental groups in session 1 of the guideline implementation showed statistically significant pretest to posttest improvement (p<.0001) when compared to the control group. In session 2 of the guideline implementation, Experimental Group 1 showed statistically significant pretest to posttest improvement (p<.005) when compared to the control group. Experimental Group 2 also showed statistically significant pretest to posttest improvement (p<.05) when compared to the control group.

Keyword(s): adolescents, developmental-disabilities, retarded, music-curriculum, guidelines.

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