Examination of music teachers' perceptions of self-efficiency regarding educational technology standards

This study was conducted to examine the self-efficacy perceptions of music teachers towards educational standards. With the developing technology and innovative education model, the needs in education have changed and gained a more technological dimension. Music teachers have started to benefit from programs that require technological infrastructure for music lessons and make lessons more permanent and meaningful. Thanks to these programs, notation writing has become easier and more technological. With the developing understanding of technology, it has become compulsory for teachers to leave the classical education model and follow technology by improving themselves. The study group of the research consists of 300 music teachers working in different provinces of Turkey and in different school types. The research was prepared in quantitative model and general screening model was used. The "Educational Technologies Standards Self-Efficacy Scale" (ETSSE) created by Ömer Şimşek and Taha Yazar was used as a measurement tool in the research. The data obtained in this study were analyzed using the SPSS 22.0 program, using arithmetic mean, frequency, standard deviation, Mann Whitney U test and Kruskal-Wallis H test, which are non-parametric tests. In the conclusion part of the study, in the examination of the self-efficacy perceptions of the music teachers towards the educational technology standards, it was found that the self-efficacy perceptions of the male music teachers participating in the research towards the educational technology standards were statistically significantly higher than the female music teachers, those with a bachelor's degree, those with a master's degree and those with a doctorate degree. There is no statistically significant difference between those aged between "20-30 years", "30-40 years old", "40-50 years old" and "50 years and over" according to their age. Employees less than 5 years, employees between "5-10 years", employees between "10-15" years according to the total working time,There is no statistically significant difference between those who work between "15-20" years and those who work for "20 years and above", according to the type of school they work in, secondary school, Anatolian High School, Vocational and Technical Anatolian High School (MTAL), Science High School, Science and Art. It has been concluded that there is no statistically significant difference between the employees of the Center (BİLSEM), Fine Arts High School and other school types.