MÜZİK ÖĞRETMENİ ADAYLARININ PROBLEM ÇÖZME BECERİLERİNE YÖNELİK ALGILARININ ÇEŞİTLİ DEĞİŞKENLER AÇISINDAN İNCELENMESİ: (Araştırma Makalesi).

In these days, everybody encounters many problems everyday and these people struggle and try to overcome these problems. Achievement in problem solving skills effects the achievements in social and professional life of individuals. Many skills in the process of music education require high level problem solving skills. In this sense the aim of this study is to determine whether there is significant difference between the participants' perceptions on problem solving skills and their genders, grades, ages and the schools that that they receive education from. Also the relation between perceptions on problem solving skills of participants and their instrument examination scores were investigated. Data was gathered from 203 pre-service music teachers. The Problem Solving Inventory, which was developed by Heppner and Petersen (1982) and translated into Turkish by Şahin, Şahin and Heppner (1993), was used and also a Personal Information Form was used as data colleting devices. According to the results there is no significant difference between the perceptions of participants on problems solving skills and their genders, grades, ages and the schools that they receive education. There was a significant negative low relation between the participants' perceptions on problem solving skills and their instrument examination scores. The results were discussed under the light of the literature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]