A potential questionnaire for probing students self-efficacy and self-regulation processes in music sight-reading

Abstract

: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the potentiality of questionnaire for verifying self-efficacy and self-regulation processes in music sight-reading (MSR), in Brazilian undergraduate music students that have music sight-reading course in their curriculum. A questionnaire bearing four dimensions regarding motivational constructs have been taken into account: (i) Beliefs on acquisition of sight-reading as a music skill; (ii) Motivation for practicing MSR; (iii) Self-efficacy beliefs about MSR capacities; (iv) Self-regulation for MSR management. Initially, one preliminary MSR questionnaire was answered by 22 students from a university in southern Brazil. Afterwards, another 37 students from two other Southern Brazilian universities answer the final version of the collecting tool. The reviewed questionnaire was tested, monitored by statistical tools and evaluated in terms of assessable internal coherence, correlations and reliability as a measuring instrument. These exploratory results have shown that proposed questionnaire has a potential of providing evidences of self-efficacy and self-regulation about music sight-reading investigated context. Further studies are necessaries to evaluate the potentiality of this tool in others music educational contexts.