Motivating students for ear-training with a rhythmic dictation application

Pesek, Matevž (author), Suhadolnik, Lovro (author), Šavli, Peter (author), Marolt, Matija (author)

We present the development and evaluation of a gamified rhythmic dictation application for music theory learning. The application was developed as a web application in the existing Troubadour platform for music ear training. The focus of the developed application was on user experience and engagement. With regards to the former, we developed a responsive and intuitive user interface; for the latter, we included several gamification elements and assessed the impact on the students’ engagement. We report on students’ experience analysis done through questionnaires and background data collected through the platform. We evaluated the rhythmic dictation application with the conservatory-level music theory students through A/B testing in order to independently evaluate the application’s impact. The results show a significant impact of the application on the students’ exam scores.

• Language: English
• Keywords: music theory education, ear training, rhythmic dictation, music information retrieval, gamification, e-learning, user evaluation
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FRI - Faculty of Computer and Information Science
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2020
• Number of pages: 19 str.
• Numbering: Vol. 10, iss. 19, art. 6781
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-134273
• UDC: 004.5:780.7
• ISSN on article: 2076-3417
• DOI: 10.3390/app10196781
• COBISS.SI-ID: 29971715
• Publication date in RUL: 04.01.2022

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Applied sciences
• Shortened title: Appl. sci.
• Publisher: MDPI
• ISSN: 2076-3417
• COBISS.SI-ID: 522979353

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• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Description: This is the standard Creative Commons license that gives others maximum freedom to do what they want with the work as long as they credit the author.
• Licensing start date: 01.10.2020

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: učenje glasbene teorije, treniranje posluha, ritmični narek, pridobivanje informacij iz glasbe, poigritev, e-izobraževanje, uporabniška evalvacija