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The problem
Intervention: Music training provided to children prior to assessment
Who it was tested with: 86 musically trained children and untrained children with similar family income in China.
Experience from people who deliver programmes: stories, case studies and lessons learned. Valuable for understanding how and why, and for spotting what to test next, but not a measure of effect.
"We recruited 86 musically trained children and untrained children with similar family income. They were tested on Chinese word reading, segmental phonological awareness, tone awareness, and music perception." This is a cross-sectional comparison design where two groups differing in music training status were assessed on multiple measures at one time point, with no baseline or follow-up data, making it a pre-post tier design that compares existing trained vs. untrained groups.
Cross-sectional design cannot establish causality. No information provided about duration, intensity, or type of music training. No details on sample size breakdown between trained and untrained groups or demographic characteristics beyond family income.
Across countries and designs
1 study · 1 country
