ABSTRACT

The purpose of this study was to examine the correlations between pre\-service teacher`s music subject self\-efficacy and previous experience about music education\. The subjects of this study were 231 elementary pre\-service teachers\. The following are the findings of this study\: Female`s score\(75\.1%\) of previous experience music education are more high than male students\(63\.5%\)\. When they start previous experience about music education, they were low elementary student\(29\.4%\), and duration 4\-6years\(29\.4%\), and elementary pre\-service teachers were the most experienced through the piano institution\(61\.9%\)\. An independent\-samples t\-test was conducted to compare the music subject self\-efficacy scores for elementary pre\-service teachers\. There was a significant difference in scores for elementary pre\-service teachers who have experience previous music education\(M \= 78\.02, SD \= 8\.06\) and who do not have experience previous music education, M \= 73\.61, SD \= 9\.63; t \(229\) \= 3\.08, p \= \.02\. The relationship between elementary pre\-service teacher`s music subject self\-efficacy and previous experience about music education was investigated using Pearson product\-moment correlation coefficient\. There was a medium correlation between the two variables, r \= \.36, n \=189, p \< \.0005\.

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