A Study of Children's Musical Preference: A Data Mining Approach

Autor/inn/en	Yim, Hoi Yin Bonnie; Boo, Yee Ling; Ebbeck, Marjory
Titel	A Study of Children's Musical Preference: A Data Mining Approach
Quelle	In: Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 39 (2014) 2, Artikel 2 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0313-5373
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Music; Preschool Children; Interviews; Questionnaires; Childhood Attitudes; Singing; Listening; Dance; Musical Instruments; Comparative Analysis; Data Analysis; Cultural Context; Early Childhood Education; Australia; Hong Kong + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Musik; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Fragebogen; Gesang; Hörvorgang; Zuhören; Tanz; Musikinstrument; Auswertung; Early childhood; Education; Frühkindliche Bildung; Frühpädagogik; Australien; Hongkong
Abstract	Musical preference has long been a research interest in the field of music education, and studies consistently confirm the importance of musical preference in one's musical learning experiences. However, only a limited number of studies have been focussed on the field of early childhood education (e.g., Hargreaves, North, & Tarrant, 2006; Roulston, 2006). Further, among these limited early childhood studies, few of them discuss children's musical preference in both the East and the West. There is very limited literature (e.g., Faulkner et al., 2010; Szymanska, 2012) which explores the data by using a data mining approach. This study aims to bridge the research gaps by examining children's musical preference in Hong Kong and in South Australia by applying a data mining technique--Self Organising Maps (SOM), which is a clustering method that groups similar data objects together. The application of SOM is new in the field of early childhood education and also in the study of children's musical preference. This paper specifically aims to expand a previous study (Yim & Ebbeck, 2009) by conducting deeper investigations into the existing datasets, for the purpose of uncovering insights that have not been identified through data mining approach. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Edith Cowan University. Bradford Street, Mount Lawley, West Australia 6050, Australia. Web site: http://ro.ecu.edu.au/ajte/
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10