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A study of children’s musical preference : A datamining approach
Yim, Hoi Yin Bonnie Boo, Yee Ling Ebbeck, Marjory
Yim, Hoi Yin Bonnie
Boo, Yee Ling
Ebbeck, Marjory
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 Organizing 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.
Keywords
musical preference, early childhood education, data mining, Self Organizing Maps (SOM), Hong Kong, South Australia
Date
2014
Type
Journal article
Journal
Book
Volume
39
Issue
2
Page Range
21-34
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ACU Department
School of Education
Faculty of Education and Arts
Faculty of Education and Arts
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Open access
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All rights reserved
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Open
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Diamond open access.
The Australian Journal of Teacher Education is access free, electronic and published by Edith Cowan University
The Australian Journal of Teacher Education is access free, electronic and published by Edith Cowan University