Abstract

It is directly related to the fact that the prospective classroom teachers have the necessary equipment in music lessons. In this study, it is aimed to compare the basic knowledge of music teacher and music reading skill levels of class teacher candidates studying at Ege University Faculty of Education Class Education Department by identifying block flute playing and musical reading skill levels. In the study, 37-item achievement test developed by Afacan (2010) was used to measure the level of knowledge of prospective classroom teachers for musical information in songs in educational music repertoire. The KR-20 reliability coefficient of the developed achievement test was 0.81. The study was carried out with 50 prospective classroom teachers who took music education course. A total of 28 prospective teachers with the highest and lowest scores in the achievement test were evaluated using the graded scoring key prepared by the researchers. As a result of the research, it was determined that prospective classroom teachers were inadequate according to the achievement test which measured basic music knowledge of school songs and it was found that block flute playing and musical reading levels were moderate and weak.

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