DİKMENLİ VARDAR, Gamze Bolluca Türk Tekstil Vakfı Ortaokulu, Turkey , SELVİ, Mahmut Gazi Üniversitesi - Gazi Eğitim Fakültesi - Fen Bilgisi Öğretmenliği Anabilim Dalı, Turkey , KÖKLÜKAYA, Ayşe Nesibe Gazi Üniversitesi - Gazi Eğitim Fakültesi - Fen Bilgisi Öğretmenliği Anabilim Dalı, Turkey

The Effect of Teaching the Respiratory System with Dramatization Technique on Students’ Achievement in Primary School

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The aim of this study was to examine the effects of teaching with dramatization technique on sixth grade students’ academic achievement concerning the “Respiratory System” subject in the “Systems in Our Body” unit in “Science and Technology” lessons of 6th grade in primary school. Therefore this research is of the pre-test/post-test quasi-experimental design. The research sample consisted of 56 students from 6th grade of a public primary school in Arnavutköy during the spring term of the academic year 2012-2013. An Achievement test with a reliability coefficient of 0.81, developed by Temelli, Arlı, Biber and Kurt (2011) was employed as a data collection tool. At the result of statistical analysis, no positive and meaningful results were found between the experimental and control groups. However, the final test achievement scores of the experimental group showed that there was a significant difference on behalf of the female students. Also it was determined that there was a significant difference between the pre-test and post-test scores in the experimental group and also in the control group.

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Dramatization Technique , Respiratory System , Science and Technology , Achievement

Mediterranean Journal Of Humanities

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