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Thesis Type: Doctorate
Institution Of The Thesis: Uludağ Üniversitesi, Turkey
Approval Date: 2017
Thesis Language: Turkish
Student: SERKAN DEMİRTAŞ
Supervisor: HATİCE ONURAY EĞİLMEZ
Abstract:In today's age of information, when we examine students' learning ways, we see that the attempts to create highly qualified learning experiences for students by using various methods have gained importance. In this respect, students' learning ways have been prioritized rather than teachers' teaching methods. It has been observed that findings obtained regarding the education where learning styles have been used as an approach indicate positive results in terms of learning experience. 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 from 730 Music Education Departments. "Non-Proportional Cluster Sampling" was firstly used for sampling. Non-proportional cluster sampling was conducted by drawing equal number of students from each cluster. Developed by the researcher to assess students' performance in piano lesson, the scales titled "Pamukkale Piano Learning Style" (2016) and "Piano Performance Test" (2016) have been used. The findings obtained have been analyzed through using SPSS 20.0 (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences). 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. Additionally, it has been understood that the highest relationship level has been seen in the "independent learning style" among all learning styles. Furthermore, it has been understood that the variables determined regarding students' learning styles are statically significant in some cases.