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This study is part of a larger project supported by Bursa Uludağ University Research Fund to
investigate university seniors across Turkey during the Covid-19 pandemic. In this part of the
project, the academic motivation levels of Music Education senior students (56.5% female and
43.5% male) were examined. Data were collected from students studying at seven state-funded
universities in Turkey using the Academic Motivation Scale and a personal information form.
The survey was distributed through an online survey tool in the fall semester of the 2020-2021
academic year. Independent sample t-test was used in data analysis since academic motivation
scores was detected as normally distributed. The academic motivation levels of senior music
education students was first examined according to gender and no significant difference found
between females and males. Afterwards, whether students were diagnosed with Covid-19, there
were someone infected with Covid-19 in their immediate environment, and whether they stay
in quarantine due to Covid-19 were examined as other potantial factors that could have an
impact on their academic motivation levels. No signficant difference was found between the
academic motivation levels of students who were diagnosed or not diagnosed with Covid-19.
Similarly, whether there was someone infected with Covid-19 in their immediate environment
does not significantly affected the academic motivation levels of the students. Staying in
quarantine due to Covid-19 has also not created a significant difference on the academic
motivation level. Although the study asked about the basic learning platforms (face to face,
online and hybrid-both online and face to face-), no comparison could be made among the three
groups of learning types during Covid-19 pandemic, since 88.2% of the students answered their
basic learning platform as online.