Abstract
The aim of this study, via the Word Association Test, an alternative assessment and evaluation technique, to reveal the cognitive structures by determining high school students' perceptions about music genres. For this purpose, in the spring semester of 2015–2016 academic year, Data in the study is obtained with the participation of 100 students in 11th and 12th. Independent word association test was used to collect data. In order to create the test, music genres, namely, Turkish Folk Music, Turkish Art Music, Pop Music and Classical Western Music, were chosen as key concepts. The data were evaluated according to the content analysis; frequency values were given and divided into categories. In line with the findings of the research, the categories of ‘cultural’ related to the concept of Turkish Folk Music, ‘instrument’ about Turkish Art Music, ‘rhythmic’ about Pop Music, and ‘instrument’ related to Classical Western Music, answer words were produced. Keywords: Concept, cognitive structure, musical genres, word association test.
Highlights
Information, important during each moment of history, has become an important factor in the globalised world with increasing communication possibilities
In this study, ‘how are the conceptual structures of the high school students' related to the concept of music genre?’ question is searched for an answer
word association test’ (WAT) relies on the answer students give to the key words given to them based on the concept
Summary
Information, important during each moment of history, has become an important factor in the globalised world with increasing communication possibilities. Learning occurs when students existing concepts are associated with the ones taught. Like forming a building, are created with every bit of knowledge put on top of the other. Problems occur in higher order learning without the teaching of concepts. This makes learning of concepts even more important. The realisation of these gains is possible with a constructivism approach that builds knowledge in education on previous gains. Constructivism is a concept of learning in which, in a learner centric ambience, new knowledge, skill or behaviour is blended with the existing ones to create something anew. The student learns by blending the new knowledge with the old (Ataman & Okay, 2009). The right configuration of concept association in students’ minds, leads to correct and effective gains towards the cognitive target goals in music classes
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