The Effect of creative drama based instruction on seventh grade students' mathematics achievement in probability concept and their attitudes toward mathematics

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2012
Geçim, Ayşe Damla
The aim of the study is to investigate the effect of creative drama- based instruction on 7th grade students’ achievement in probability concept and their attitude toward mathematics. Another purpose of the study is to investigate the gender differences regarding mathematics achievement and attitude. The study was conducted with two 7th grade classes from a public school in the 2010-2011 academic year, lasting 17 lesson hours (six weeks). Twenty-two of the participants received Creative Drama Based Instruction (CDBI), and twenty-one received Regular Instruction (RI). Experimental design was used in which two different learning environments; creative drama based instruction and regular instruction was compared. In order to measure students’ mathematics achievement Probability Achievement Test (PAT) was used. The participants were given Mathematics Attitude Scale (MAS), in order to quantify the levels of attitude towards mathematics. These instruments were implemented before and after the treatment as pre-test and post-test. Independent samples t-test was performed on gain scores of PAT and MAS. Moreover, two way ANOVA was performed to examine the data. Two way ANOVA results yielded that there was a statistically significant difference between the mean scores of Experimental Group and Control Group in terms of achievement in favor of Experimental Group. Moreover, female students had significantly higher mathematics achievement scores than males. The results of mathematics attitude scale showed that the seventh grade students’ attitudes towards mathematics were not significantly different with respect to teaching method. Also, it could be stated that gender difference regarding of mean attitude scores was not statistically significant.

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A. D. Geçim, “The Effect of creative drama based instruction on seventh grade students’ mathematics achievement in probability concept and their attitudes toward mathematics,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2012.