The use of music in improves the academic achievement among primary school students: case study in Sekolah Kebangsaan Padang Jawa, Shah Alam, Selangor / Rapahel Binsing

Music is one of the tools in improves the academic achievement in teaching in the classroom. Therefore, this study has been done to identify the effectiveness of the music to be used to improve the academic achievement in Sekolah Kebangsaan Padang Jawa in Shah Alam, Selangor. A set of questionnaire was developed and distributed to 78 teachers at the school. Returned and valid numbers of questionnaire are 75 respondents. All are analysed by using Google form through online format. Study findings shows that there was significant positive effect of the use of music in improves the academic achievement. Additionally, most of the teachers are have an intention to use music as a tool in teaching. The facilities are very limited but teachers are creative to find the solution and idea to make sure the planning of lesson will be used the classroom. But there is some teachers are not really focus on using music a tool to be used in teaching because they do not have enough knowledge and skills in music. Furthermore the students shows good response when the teacher using music as one of the tools of teaching in the classroom. As a conclusion, the recommendations and suggestions for future research were made based on the findings and analyses done by the researcher.