Examining Self-Efficacy Beliefs and Attitudes of Prospective Music Teachers Trained with Concurrent and Consecutive Model

The aim of this study is to examine self-efficacy beliefs and attitude of prospective music teachers
trained concurrent vs consecutive teacher training model with regard to varied demographic factors
and define whether their attitudes affect levels of self-efficacy beliefs. General and correlational
survey was used in the study and two scales were used; Self-efficacy Scale and Attitude Scale. It was
determined that data has normal distribution with equal variances. Hence, parametric statistics was
used in order to analysis collected quantitative data. Some of the results are that; there is no
significant difference both level of self-efficacy and attitudes towards their professions between
teachers trained concurrent and consecutive teacher training model. There is difference attitude
towards their profession according to their gender. Most important finding in the study is that there
is significant positive linear relationship between attitudes of prospective music teachers towards
their profession and their level of self-efficacy. Moreover, an attitude is a significant predictor on
level of self-efficacy of prospective music teachers.