Investigation of Music Teacher Candidates' Motivation and Study Skills in Voice Education Course

This study aims to reveal the relationship between the motivation and study skills of music teacher candidates regarding the individual voice training lesson and to reveal the relationship between these two variables. Correlational survey model was used as the research method. The population of the research was chosen from one university in seven geographical regions of Turkey, studying in the Music Education Department, using the random cluster sampling method. The sample consists of freshman students of Music Education Department in Turkey. Personal Information Form created by the researcher, "Individual Voice Training Course Motivation Scale" and "Study Skills Scale" were used as data collection tools in this research. In the analysis of the data, the percentages and frequencies of the Personal Information Form are shown in the tables. SPSS 25 package programme was used for data analysis. In the analysis of demographic variables to continuous variables, normality was tested, and t-Test and One-Way ANOVA analysis were used in cases of normality. In the absence of normality, the Kruskal-Wallis H test was used. Spearman Rank Correlation was used to observe the relationship between continuous variables.