The impact of using image on the success of teaching school songs

In this study, it is aimed to assess how effective the use of images is in terms of teaching the school songs. For this purpose, pretest-posttest experimental method of scientific investigation with a control group is used as a method. The work groups are 4th grade students (n=120) from the schools of National Education Ministry such as ?Ali Rıza Aydos?, ?Şehit Asteğmen Feyzullah Taşkınsoy?, ?Emine Nezihe Parlak? and ?Gazi? Primary Schools.As a data collection tool, personal data gathering forms, pretest-posttest rating scale, cognitive rating forms used in image-based school songs. Therefore, the students of these four schools in the autumn, 2011-2012 years of education were separated into the control and experimental groups. The researcher instructed the image-based school chants to the experimental group (n=60), and the ones within the techniques that belong to ministry of education curriculum to the control group (n=60) 2 lesson-times per week in a six weeks period.In the study, animations and videos that provide active learning and are directly related with the content of every school song were prepared with the help of supporting audiovisual perception by imagination in order to use them in experimental groups. In this purpose, video motions and pictures that synchronically support the meaning of lyrical images in school songs were firstly designed. Secondly, by turning the audio images, their song notes into the polyphonic patterns and making them richer, they were designed as attention-grabbing via the software program of Logic Studio. Lastly, these audiovisual images were combined by Flash CS5 animation software program, so the material development step for training school songs was finally over.On the other hand, ?teaching songs by pick-up?, which is one of the traditional methods of training school chants, was applied for the control group.The analyses of this research were performed by the SPSS.17 software program.By the use of findings from this research:a)The posttest points from the pretest-posttest rating scale of the experimental group which received the training of the image-based school chants, and the control group which got the traditional methods of training school chants showed a difference within the significance level as p<.05 in favor of experimental group at all the schools.b)Given the total points of pretest-posttest, ANOVA results; it is concluded that the number of music kinds displayed a significant difference in accordance with monthly income rate of the families, and the occupation of mothers due to the demographical variances.