Abstract
<p style="text-align:justify">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 student’s 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 3’rd 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.</p>
Highlights
Human bei ngs always seek for information every moment of their life
The present study aims to determine learning styles of students majoring in Music Education Departments in Turkey and develop scale on learning styles to be used in piano lessons
We can contend that male students are more likely prefer analytical learning style than female students
Summary
Human bei ngs always seek for information every moment of their life. Education has long been an ongoing process. In parallel with the fast-paced of the technology, the concept of technology has been changing and evolving. “education” has been defined with respect to its own disciplines. A different s ense of education is prevalent today. “Today’s sens e of education has led us-educators -to understand learners’ personality traits more and to design learning environments according to student learning styles. One of the primary objectives of these studies is to build student learning styles” (Hasirci, 2006, p.16)
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