Examining the relationship between the talent and the final grades of undergraduate music education students

Abstract

This study aims to examine the relationship between the talent exam grades (2017) of 2 voice, 3 voice, 4 voice hearing, melody repetition, rythym repetition, dictation, solfege and the final exam grades (2018) of first class undergraduate music education students of a University placed in Blacksea reagion. The same questions were directed to the students both in talent exam and the final exam of Musical Hearing, Reading and Writing lesson at the end of the second semester of the first year, and the corelation among two exam scores are examined. The study group of the article consists of 50 students who became successfull in the talent exam of Music Education Department of Fine Arts Branch of Education Faculty in the year 2017, and 44 of 50 successfull students who registered to the faculty as first class students in 2017-2018. The talent exam grades are accessed with the approval of the deanship. The implementation grades are obtained from the final exam of Musical Hearing, Reading and Writing lesson at the end of the second semester of the first year by directing the same questions. The talent exam grades and the implementation grades of study groups are analysed by using analysis programs, and results are compared. As the conclusion of the study, it’s noted that there is a weak relationship between talent exam and implementation exam grades of 2 voice hearing, 3 voice hearing, 4 voice hearing, melody repetition and solfege, and there is almost no relationship between the grades of rythym repetition. The grades of dictation is higher in the implementation exam.