A remedial piano sight-reading self-instructional package for intermediate Piano students

Abstract

The purposes of the study were to (1) invent a remedial piano sight-reading self instructional package for intermediate piano students, (2) verify the efficiency of this package following the efficiency criterion of 70/70, (3) compare the average results of pre-test and post-test, and 4) explore the students' satisfaction with the package. The sample consisted of 23 intermediate piano students from 7 qualified piano studios, with a duration of 10 weeks. Research instruments were (1) the series of a remedial piano sight-reading self-instructional package for intermediate piano students, which consisted of 10 books (2) a teacher's handbook and (3) the students' satisfaction questionnaire with Likert's five-point rating scale. The statistics used to analyze the data were descriptive statistics: percentages, means, standard deviations and inferential statistics: a paired-sample t-test with a significance level of 0.05. The results of this research were (1) the efficiency of a remedial piano sightreading self-instructional package for intermediate piano students was 82.41/84.63, higher than the standard efficiency 70/70, (2) the average score of the post-test was higher than that of the pre-test at a statistically significant level of 0.05, and (3) the students' satisfaction with a remedial piano sight-reading self-instructional package for intermediate piano students was at a high level.;