Özengen Piyano Dersi Alan İlköğretim Öğrencilerinin Piyano Çalgısına Yönelik Bilişsel Yapılarının Kelime İlişkilendirme Testi Aracılığıyla İncelenmesi
The Investigation of the Cognitive Structures of Primary School Students Who Took Amateur Piano Course Through the Word Association Test

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this study is to reveal the cognitive structures of primary school students by determining their perceptions about the concept of "Piano" through the Word Association Test (WAT), which is an alternative assessment and evaluation technique. In this study which is designed by using qualitative research method, the data were obtained with the participation of a total of 29 elementary school students who took amateur piano education. Independent word association test was used to collect data. The data were analyzed with content analysis tecnique and the themes determined was cathegorized. According to the findings of the research, six categories (musical knowledge, affectiveness, physical structure of the piano, to practice, to show, anxiety) were determined as a result of the answers given by the primary school students to the key concept of "Piano" and a total of 117 answer words were obtained. It was observed that the students associate the key concept of "Piano" with the word "note" mostly. In the "structure of the piano" category obtained from the answer words, the most common answer that the students associate with was the word "keys". This shows that students have the right cognitive perception level regarding to the "piano" key concept. Additionally, in the data collected with the measurement tool in the specified categories, it was observed that elementary school students had alternative concepts for the key concept.

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