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THE EFFECT OF DRAMA TECHNIQUE ON STUDENTS’ ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE AND PERMANENCE

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  • International Journal of Education Science and Technology

Publication Year:

  • 2016

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Abstract (2. Language): 
In this paper, the impact of Drama Technique on academic success of students and permenance of learning on the subject of static electricity for seventh class primary School science and Technology students was investigated. In the study a quasi-experimental study was carried out and a pretest-posttest control group experimental design was used. The study sample constitude forty four seventh grade students from an elementary school in the district of Erzurum Dadaskent. A simple random sampling method was used for the selection of the study sample. Attention was paid to ensure that the control and study groups be comparable with one another. As both groups were composed of students from the same environment, it was presumed that these students’ socio-economic level and their level of skill and knowledge were also similar. The application implemented in 3 weeks of the first term of 2011-2012 education year. During the application process, it was used the technique of the role of drama method for testing group and traditional method for control group. The data of the investment was gathered together by academic success test (pre-test, post-test and retention test). To analyse the data was assessed from investigation; the Independent Sample T-Test method was used for comparisons the different groups and the Paired Sample T-Test was used for paired comparisons in same groups. According to the results of the analysis of the post-test and retention test,the testing group was more successfull. Using the technique of drama has a positive impact on academic success and retention of learning for students.
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