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ERIC Number: EJ1185686
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2018
Pages: 15
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ISSN: EISSN-2165-8714
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The Relationship between Learning Styles of Pre-Service Music Teachers and Academic Achievement
Demirtas, Serkan; Onuray Egilmez, Hatice
European Journal of Educational Research, v7 n3 p615-629 2018
The present study aims to determine learning styles of students majoring in Music Education Departments in Turkey and thus develop scale on learning styles to be used in piano lessons. Moreover, it is intended to reveal the relationship between students' learning styles identified by the developed scale and their academic performance in piano lessons. In this sense, an achievement test was developed to assess students' performances in piano lessons. The research was figured according to relational screening model among the screening models. The population of the research is composed of 3rd grade students majoring in Music Education Departments in Turkey. The sample of the research consists of 473 third grade students out of 730 3rd year students studying in Music Education Departments. Developed by the researchers to assess students' performance in piano lesson, the scales titled "Pamukkale Piano Learning Style" and "Piano Performance Test" have been used. In light of the results obtained from the study, a learning style model has been developed to learn piano instrument. According to this model, students' independent, analytical, dependent and emotional learning styles have been identified. According to the research results, there is no high-level relationship between all learning styles and piano academic performance.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Turkey
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