Evaluation of secondary school students? self efficacy perceptions and attitudes towards music lesson

The purpose of this research is to evaluate secondary school students?, in the 6th and 7th grades, self efficacy perceptions and attitudes towards music lesson.In this research, survey model inside the descriptive method has been used. Survey model is a research approach which aims to describe a situation in the past or a situation still existing as it is or it was.This research has been done in A, B, C elementary schools in Kırşehir in 2008 -2009 educational year which represent upper, middle and low class socio-economic environments. The universe of this research is made up of 6th and 7th grade secondary school students in the centre of Kırşehir and the sample of the research is made up of 316 students in the 6th and 7th grades.?Attitude Scale For Music?, improved by Ayfer Kocabaş, of which cronbach alpha interior consistency parameter has been found as 0.75 by the researcher has been used together with ?Music Lesson Self Efficacy Scale?, improved by the researcher to gain data from the sample, of which cronbach alpha interior consistency parameter has been determined as 0.943. Descriptive statistic for the analysis of data, Independent Samples For Variance Analysis With One Factor (One-Way ANOVA), T-Test For Independent Samples, Kruskal Wallis H-Test, Mann Whitney U-Test and Spearman-Brown Correlation Coefficient have been used.These outcomes have been acquired:1.6th and 7th grade secondary shcool students? self efficacy towards music lesson are high in general.2.There is no meaningful relation in between 6th and 7th grade secondary school students? self efficacy towards music and the socio-economic environment in which the school is.3.It has been figured out that there is a difference in meaningfull level between the self efficacy of girls and boys towards music lesson.4.There is a difference in meaningful level between the self efficacy perceptions of 6th and 7th grade students towards music lesson and this difference is in favor of 6th grades.5.6th and 7th grade secondary school students? attitude towards music lesson is positive in general.6.The scores the students have taken in attitude scale differ in a meaningful level according to the socio-economic environment in which the schools are.7.It has been figured out that there is a meaningful difference between the attitudes of girls and boys towards music lesson and this difference is in favor of girls.8.There is a meaningful difference in between the attitudes of students towards music lesson and class variable and this meaningful difference is in favor of 6th grades.9.Self effiacy and attitudes of students towards music lesson show difference according to their some demographic features.Also these have been determined that there is a positive relation in medium level between the scores of students? self efficacy perceptions and attitudes, that there is a positive relation in medium level between music lesson mark and self efficacy scores, that there is a positive relation in high level between music lesson mark and attitude scores and that these relations are meaningful from the statistical view.Key Words: Self efficacy, self efficacy towards music lesson, attitude, attitude towards music lesson, primary music education, relation of self efficacy-attitude-achievement.