The analysis of self-efficacy perceptions of music teacher candidates in individual voice training course.

This study aims to determine the self-efficacy perceptions of music teacher candidates towards the individual voice training course by examining these perceptions in terms of different variables and contribute to education based on the findings obtained. This study is a descriptive survey model which is one of the quantitative research methods. The participant group of this study involves 157 male and 238 female in total 395 students ,third and fourth grade students, studying in the Department of Music Education at Adnan Menderes University, Atatürk University, Balıkesir University, Dokuz Eylül University, Gazi University, Harran University, İnönü University, Marmara University, Mehmet Akif Ersoy University and Trabzon University. In this study, "Individual Voice Training Course Self-Efficacy Scale" was used as a data collection tool. Considering the data gathered by the survey results; self-efficacy perceptions of music teacher candidates towards individual voice training course were found to be at moderate levels, according to the gender and school variable there is no statistically significant difference between their self-efficacy perceptions, but there are some striking differences based on per item, as for the grade variable, it was found that 4th grade students had higher levels of self-efficacy perceptions than 3rd grade students. Furthermore, the results revealed that there was a moderately large inverse impact and relationship between the participants' general anxiety and self-efficacy perceptions towards individual voice training course.