Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.15516/cje.v16i4.624
Musically Talented Pupils in Slovene Elementary Schools: Gender and Age Differences in the Area of Musical Abilities /
Bojan Kovačič
; Faculty of Education, University of Maribor
Janja Črčinovič Rozman
; Faculty of Education, University of Maribor
Abstract
The basic purpose of this article is to form suitable terminology and definitions for musical talent that include important fields of evaluating the characteristics of musical talent. It also aims to carry out research into some characteristics of a sample of musically talented Slovene pupils in the area of musical abilities at the elementary school level, especially from the aspect of finding possible differences related to gender and age. The research involved 86 elementary school teachers from twelve Slovene schools (city and rural) who teach first to fifth grade (6-10 year-old pupils). 86 musically talented pupils were evaluated. It is surprising that of the musically talented pupils nominated, 72.1% were girls and only 27.9% were boys. Based on the results, we tried to prove the hypothesis that gender is not a differential factor of the characteristics of most musically talented pupils in the area of musical abilities. There were only two characteristics that showed a statistically significant difference between boys and girls: the variable of listening with directed attention was expressed more by girls and tonal stability was expressed more by boys. Contrary to our expectations, age (6-10 years old) was not found to be an important differentiation factor in the characteristics of musically talented pupils in the area of musical abilities.
Keywords
characteristics of musically talented pupils; factor analysis; gender and age; musical abilities; musical talent
Hrčak ID:
132966
URI
Publication date:
29.12.2014.
Visits: 1.897 *