Pre-school and elementary school pre-service teachers’ learning outcomes for music

AbstractThe purpose of this study is to asses pre-service and elementary school teachers’ perceptions about learning outcomes of music instruction that they got during their course work over two semesters. Sixteen criteria for elementary pre-service teachers’ learning outcomes developed by European Association of Music Educators were modified as likert scale. The scale was applied to 114 students from elementary and pre-school teacher department of Akdeniz University. It was seen that the Cronbach Alpha reliability coefficient was,908. In order to define the students’ self opinions about meeting the criterias, frequency and Mean was used. According to the results of the study, pre-service teachers believe that they are quite sufficient to manage and facilitate singing and other kinds of musical performances, select imaginative and appropriate materials and frameworks, motivate and facilitate the musical creativity of learners, make learners enable to share their musical experiences, use current media (including ICT) and to enrich the learners’ life inside and outside of the school. © 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved