THE EFFECT OF GUİTAR USE AS TEACHER’S INSTRUMENT ON MUSİC CLASS ACHİEVEMENT OF PRİMARY SCHOOL STUDENTS

This study was carried out to determine the effects of guitar use as a teacher instrument on the music class achievement of primary school students. The research was performed among 178 sixth grade students of three primary schools of Ministry of National Education in Çankaya district of Ankara in the fall term of 2007-2008 academic year. Pre-post test control group experimental design was used in the study. As a data collection instrument, “Cognitive Achievement Test” that was developed by researchers has been used. In order to analyze the data gathered frequency (f), percentage (%), mean (X ) and Student’s t test were used. The experiment was conducted for six weeks. During the research, guitar was used as teacher’s instrument for the experiment group and recorder was used for the control group. As a result, it was determined that there was a significant difference on behalf of the experiment group in gaining cognitive behaviors targeted in the “Speed, Density and Expression in Music” chapter. In the research statistical significance level was accepted as .05.