Music Majors Learning Self-efficacy Measurement

The conception'Perceived Self-efficacy'was put forward by Bandura, a famous American Psychologist in 1977, which means the individual's perception and belief of the ability of controlling the various aspects of the life. It's the central mechanism of human's motives and the base of human's actions. The student's Perceived Academic Self-efficacy means their belief in academic abilities. It's the students'subjective judgment in controlling their study behavior and academic abilities, as well as their performance in the field of their study.The research is intended to introduce the theory into the students'specific musical tasks. Based on the already-got diagram, we compile a diagram to measure the college students'self- efficacy who major in music, called"the diagram on measuring the music college students'studies". And we can also use the diagram to initially measure and research their self- efficacy levels. Based on the measured results, we analyze the main factors affecting the students'self- efficacy in the course of their study and on this base we put forward the music college students'self- efficacy. It can not be used as a tool to carryout correlated researches to develop the students'self- efficacy in music study. Most important of all, it can be used to know about the students'level in music students'academic degree, which helps build the music students'learning system and promote and bring their initiatives to play. Meanwhile, the results of the research can also provide realistic basis for the college music teachers to carryout teaching activities accordingly.Based on theory, beginning with self- efficacy and combined with music study practice, we make a diagram for the music college students'study. It is made up of two dimensions and then sub-tests totaling 34 items. The analysis of the questions and the research on the degree of trust and the efficiency all indicate the diagram made in the research have come up to the required standard.Based on the measurement of the music college students'self- efficacy, I have found the following: 1. the college students in professional conservatory and those in a normal music college show many differences in this kind of ability. Those who study in a professional conservatory have an distinctive advantage over the ones studying in a normal music college. The students in a conservatory show for higher level on"basic abilities"that is on"good study results","good-achieving","the sense of talent"and"self-confidence". In the test of active self-predicting, the students in a normal music college have kind of advantage over those in a conservatory but these come no distinctive difference. In the test of"the sense of controlling", the students in a conservatory have distinctive advantage both in"the sense of environment"and"the sense of effort". In the test of"the sense of self-doubting"and"the sense of powerlessness", the students in a conservatory also have an advantage but the difference not too obvious. In the test of"being to be disturbed", the students in a normal music college have some advantage but the difference is not too obvious. 2. These is no obvious difference between sexes in the self- efficacy in every level of test in a conservatory. 3. But there exists a distinctive difference between students from different areas: students from the city have distinctive advantage over those from non-cities, for example on"good study results", and"self-confidence". In the test of"active self-predicting", the students from the city are better but not too much. In the test of"the sense of self-control", the students from the city are far better than those from the country. In the test of"sense of self-doubt","sense of environment"and"sense of effort", the students from the city all see obvious advantage. But in the other two sub-tests, although the students from the city are better but from the statistics no distinctive difference can be seen.