Self-Regulation Behaviors of Music Education Students

Abstract

This research aims to examine the self-regulation behaviors of the undergraduate students which they display in their music education process and the differentiation of these behaviors according to various variables as well as collecting the opinions of the students about the musical instrument practice behaviors. In this study, where mixed method was used, data were collected by questionnaire for the survey model and interview techniques for the factual part. For the quantitative part of the study the ‘Self-Regulation Behaviors of Music Students’ scale adapted into Turkish by Ersözlü and Miksza (2015) and was used   The themes was acquired by coding the quantitative results obtained in the interviews conducted to discover the behaviors of the students in the instrument playing process. In the study group of the research, the quantitative part consists of 240 students (n=240) studying in music teaching undergraduate programs in Conservatories, Fine Arts, Art Design Faculties and Education Faculties located in different regions of Turkey and the qualitative part consists of (n=5) students. In the results, it was seen that there were significant differences between the 3rd and 4th grades in terms of Behavior dimension of the students. In the Method dimension, on the other hand, there were significant differences between the 1st and 3rd; 3rd and 4th grades in terms of the instrument study year. Furthermore, students have assumed that while they are not able to spare enough time for the study, they recording audios and listening to them again for self-control, evaluating themselves and using personal strategies such as taking notes.