Abstract

The purpose of this study was to examine how music videos in the instruction of the Economics discipline can impact the academic performance of the students in chosen secondary schools in the Keningau district of Sabah. It has also looked at the effects of music video integration on the readiness, motivation and knowledge of the study students as well as the relationships against one another. The quantitative design adopted was based on the use of quasi-experimental design that involved the pre-test and post-test. Researchers chose 113 participants who were assigned to 2 groups the experimental group (56 students) and the control group (57 students). The experimental term group underwent a lesson that would use music videos and the control group underwent the standard lesson. The two groups had pre-tests and post-tests. The effects of incorporating music videos on the learning outcomes were examined with ANOVA and with paired t-tests, the readiness, motivation, and knowledge of students were studied with the help of descriptive analysis. To evaluate the relations between variables of readiness, motivation and knowledge Pearson correlation was used. The results provided that the incorporation of music video in learning process was one of the most critical dimensions in boosting acquisition of good academic success among students. Moreover, integration of music videos was observed to have the positive impacts on the readiness, motivation and knowledge of the students.