” Internatıonal Journal Of Socıal Scıences And Humanıty Studıes Vol 3, No 1,, cilt.3, sa.1, ss.457-466, 2011 (Hakemli Dergi)
This research is a descriptive study conducted in order to determine the attitude
levels of candidate music teachers studying at the Music Education Departments
of Universities in Turkey towards the instrument lesson during their education at
the universities. Working group of this study is comprised of senior students
studying in Faculty of Education from different universities of Turkey. The scale
used in the study was adopted from the attitude scale prepared by Tufan and
Güdek (2008) and aimed at the piano lesson and the studies of validity and
reliability were carried out. After the factor analysis performed, the factor
structure of the scale was determined as; value, pleasure and necessity. As a result
of the study, value, pleasure and necessity dimensions, which are the
subdimensions of the Attitude Scale of the teacher candidates aimed at the
instrument lesson, were compared with one another within the context of the
study findings and consequently, significant determinations were revealed