The correlation between the general achievement point and level of motivation on music teaching as a profession in undergraduate level students of music education

ABSTRACT The Correlation Between The General Achievement Point And Level of Motivation On Music Teaching as a Profession in Undergraduate Level Students of Music Education Özlem ONUK Güzel Sanatlar Egitimi Anabilim Dalı Müzik Egitimi Bilim Dalı Fine Arts Department, Department of Music Education Prof. Dr. Ali UÇAN Nisan - 2007 The aim of this research is to identify whether or not there is a correlation between the level of motivation towards music teaching and the general achievement point of students who study in the department of Music education. The study also aims to identify the level of motivation of the students towards music teaching. To reach the target of the study a descriptive method has been used. The level of motivation has been identified with a scale of motivation on Music Teaching as a Profession, which has been formed and developed especially for this study. A scale of 5 likert type which consists of 40 questions 17 of which are personal information and 23 of which are related to motivation in Music teachin was applied to 194 undergraduate students and the data collected was statistically examined. In the identification of the level of motivation of students and arithmatic mean and standard deviation was made use of. A varience analysis, a t test and a Scheffe test was applied to find out whether there is a difference among the levels of motivation.The levels of motivation of the students who participated in this study has been handled in its three major sub-dimentions as intrinsic motivation, external motivation and amotivation In this respect, intrinsic motivation to know, intrinsic v motivation for experience, intrinsic motivation for success, identified regulation, introjection, external regulation and the sublevels of amotivation were identified. Besides, it was also examined whether or not there is a correlation between their level of motivation and their gender, class, highschool they graduated from, their situation of accomadition, financial support they get, their income level, status of scholarship, the region they come from. In addition to what has been mentioned above, the correlation between the level of general academic achievement and their level of motivation for music teaching, classes of musical formation, classes of music teaching formation, classes of general teaching formation common classes in the curricullum have been examined. In the study, it has been found out that the students of music education have motivation for teachin music in general and they have high levels of intrinsic and low levels of external motivation. The levels of motivation in female students is higher than male students. Students with low income level have more proffessional motivation. With this study, It has been found that the academic achievement of students of music education has little effect on their motivation of teaching, the success of music teaching formation has an important impact on their level of motivation for music teaching, and the success in general knowledge lessons does not have a significant influence on their level of motivation.