The Effect of Adding Relevant Music and Sound Effects to an Audio-Only Narration: A Three-Treatment Application of Mayer’s Coherence Principle

Sound effects and music can be used to complement instructional narrations in recorded media presentations. College students (n = 143) participated in a study examining the effects of music and sound effects on learning outcomes when compared to voice-only narration. Four groups of participants listened to a recorded short story and answered questions about the story. The control group’s story was a voice-only narration. The three treatment groups’ story was enhanced with one of the following: sound effects, music, or a combination of sound effects and music. Means for each group were not significantly different, and the difference of means between and within each of the groups was also found not to be significant. The results indicated that the presence sound effects and music from an audio-only presentation did not significantly increase or decrease learning.

Name thesis:degree_name

EdD

Level thesis:degree_level

doctoral

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Education, Criminal Justice, and Human Services: Curriculum and Instruction

Grantor dc:publisher

University of Cincinnati

Year dc:date

2012

Author dc:creator

• Curran, Andrew

Contributors dc:contributor

• Israel, Maya

• Educational Software
• sound effects
• music
• audio
• coherence principle
• arousal theory
• multimedia learning

Statement dc:rights

• unrestricted
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Language dc:language

English

Repository record dc:identifier

http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1352397100

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:etd.ohiolink.edu:ucin1352397100