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Identifier	Thesis 1579
Author	Anderson, Margaret B
Title	Music as a mnemonic device in the teaching of multiplication facts / Margaret B. Anderson
Publisher	Central Connecticut State University
Date	2000
Resource Type	Master's Thesis
Notes	As the art teacher of kindergarten through grade three students, I am very much aware that children enter kindergarten at various stages of physical, emotional, mental and artistic development. Because art education requires fine motor skills in order to hold and use artistic tools, I am most interested in children's fine motor development. The purpose of this research is to use strategies and interventions that may help those students who are developmentally delayed in their fine motor skills when they enter kindergarten. I became interested in researching strategies that would help students develop their fine motor skills when I noticed that students who struggled in kindergarten in art continued to struggle as they continued their schooling in tasks such as handwriting and copying from the chalkboard in their regular classes. Because this research involved children's muscle development, I worked closely with the school occupational therapist to research occupational therapy-based interventions that I could use with kindergarten students in the art room as part of the art program. I chose and developed activities to support three interventions designed to improve students' hand strength, grip, and eye-hand coordination. After a review of relevant literature I decided to design a study which specifically targeted improving the fine motor skills of drawing and cutting. The research was guided by the following question: How will kindergarten students who have problems with fine motor skills (grip, eye-hand coordination, strength) improve their drawing and cutting with an art-based occupational therapy integration program? In order to conduct the study, I organized the research design into two sub questions: 1. How will an art-based occupational therapy integration program focused on hand strength, grip, and eye-hand coordination improve kindergarten students' fine motor skills in drawing? 2. How will an art-based occupational therapy integration program focused on hand strength, grip, and eye-hand coordination improve kindergarten students' fine motor skills of cutting? This study took place in the art room with one kindergarten class of nineteen students. I administered a group of fifteen occupational therapy-based activities as part of the art lessons. I collected data on all nineteen students but focused primarily on analyzing the data of a selected group of students who I called my skill groups. These students were chosen from my baseline data as those who need the most help and they were categorized into five groups. I collected baseline data through worksheets and art activities using a rubric to score the students in areas of cutting and drawing. At the end of this study, I administered a posttest worksheet as well as an art activity that was more challenging than the art activity I had scored at the beginning of the research. I found that 85% of the students in the skill group improved. The most improvement was seen in the area of eye-hand coordination. From the findings I was able to conclude that occupational therapy-based interventions helped the kindergarten students improve their fine motor skills in the areas of drawing and cutting. Most of the students in the skill groups improved their hand strength, grip, and cutting while all of the students' eye-hand coordination improved. This research shows that children's physical development leads to an improvement in artistic skills. Because of this action research, I will continue to use the occupational therapy-based strategies with kindergartners.
Subject	Mnemonics Multiplication -- Study and teaching (Elementary)
Department	Department of Mathematical Sciences
Advisor	Halloran, Philip P
Type	Text
Digital Format	application/pdf
Language	eng
OCLC number	45219539
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