An investigation about achievement levels of candidates applied special ability exam of music education program

Aptitude tests are held every year in Turkiye for student recruitment for the department of music teacher. This qualifying exam consists of two steps. These are musical listening-reading-writing and musical playing and musical singing. This exam is held especially in summer time. Candidates ,graduates from different high schools, both living in city centers and countries having different family cultures take this exam. In this respect, socio demographic features of the students taking the exam show variety.In this search, held at the University of İnönü at the Department of Music Teacher in 2010-2011 education year, score and success status of the students have been examined according to their gender, high school, area of growing, the musical situation and monthly salary of their families and field instrument as well as the relation between music domain scores and placement scores. Brief informations related to main musical abilities and musical success used as a standart in the World have been presented.387 candidates creates universe of this search. The process of data collection consists of two steps. First one is to create ?Personal Information Form? and the implementation of this form to the students and the other one is to be reached exam scores from İnönü University Education Faculty. SPSS 16.0 packet programme has been used for the analysis of the data acguired by the means of sub-problems of the search. It has been observed that whether the coefficient of skew and stickiness of the scores have normal ranges or not after the implementation of kolmogorov-smirnov test in order to determine the normality condition . For the groups that don?t reflect normal distribution according to the sub-aims of the research test of Mann-Whitney U, test of Kruksal-Wallis H, Multiplying of Pearson moments correlation coefficient, t-test, the only aspect of analysis of variance (ANOVA) and test of Tukey have been used for the groups that reflect the normal distribution . At the final stage, it has been examined whether the students have won the exam or not according to various variables.At the end of research, it has been observed that there is no significant relation between the scores of musical listening-writing and the scores of musical playing with musical singing. On the other hand, it has been observed that there is a significant one between the scores of musical playing and musical singing. The most minimum relationship is between the placement scores and musical singing scores.It has been found that there are significant differences among the scores according to the type of high school, the area where lived in, preparing duration for the exam and preparation of the format, musical education and the field of instrument when four point types, especially scores of the department of music and the scores of placement , have been examined . It has been determined that the scores of the field of the musical discourse don?t change according to all variables. The significant difference among the scores of musical listening and writing has been regarded as a remarkable result wheras there is no significant difference among the scores of the musical playing field according to the field of instrument variable. It has been also observed that there is no significant difference among the all point types according to gender, monthly family salary, including the salary of candidate, the musical awaraness of family, the area where living in.Various suggestions have been recommended according to the results of the searches.