The Future of Education

This research was an effort to enhanced music theory efficiency of undergraduate students in western music program of Chandrakasem Rajabhat University. The development of new learning media tends to resolve several limitations of teaching such as plenty of content and students in a classroom, and a student’s readiness. The objectives of this research were: 1) to studied and develop music theory learning media for students in western music program and 2) to evaluate a quality of learning media. The methods of a study divided in two parts, The first past began with a study of first year student’s statuses and needs. Data collecting by questionnaire, interview, and music theory test, therefrom, developed the music media based on results. The second part was an implement and evaluation of music learning media to 25 students quota selected form first year students. Data collecting by pre & post test of music theory competency, and questionnaire of student’s opinion. Data analysis by descriptive statistics, Inferential statistics (T-test for dependent Samples) and contents analysis. The results of the study were: 1) Most of Students (84%) would like to get new design of learning media in music theory. Students suggest that the features of learning media should be instruction videos, website, sound recording and exercises that based on online accession. The developed music learning media consist of core conceptual instructional video, detailed supplementary instructional video, e-document exercises, and websites. The content of media divided on 4 units such as writing and identification of basic musical notations, rhythms, scales, and intervals. 2) The post test score (M = 85.78, S.D. = 7.23) significantly showed music theory learning outcomes higher than pretest score (M = 45, S.D. = 23.83) at .01 level. The average student’s satisfaction with the websites was at high level (M = 4.44, S.D. = 0.65), with the lesson Video was at high level (M = 3.86, S.D. = 0.77) and with exercises was at high level (M = 3.67, S.D. = 0.91).

Keywords: Learning Media, Music Theory, Efficiency.

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