How could Sparkplug Dance impact test scores?
A comprehensive study from Harvard Graduate School of Education’s Project Zero found demonstrable links between experiences with music and drama and increases in certain cognitive skills, but also showed no connection in many areas between arts education and students’ academic achievement. “We found evidence that specific art forms support specific kinds of thinking and learning, but in other cases there’s no clear link between the arts and academic skills. These interesting relationships between arts and non-arts learning deserve further rigorous investigation and exploration in classroom practice,” says Ellen Winner, Professor of Psychology at Boston College and Senior Research Associate at Harvard Project Zero. Hetland adds, “Arts advocates need to stop making sweeping claims about the arts as a magic pill for turning students around academically. Arts teachers should not be held accountable for student test scores in other areas. Instead, arts in the curriculum should be justified
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