Effectiveness of Teaching Science by Drama - Creative Education

CE > Vol.10 No.1, January 2019

Effectiveness of Teaching Science by Drama ()

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DOI: 10.4236/ce.2019.101007 1,479 Downloads 7,110 Views Citations

Author(s)

Naim Najami¹, Muhamad Hugerat^1*, Khuloud Khalil¹, Avi Hofstein^1,2

Affiliation(s)

¹The Academic Arab College for Education in Israel-Haifa, Haifa, Israel.
²Department of Science Teaching, The Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel.

ABSTRACT

The present study aims at determining the effect of learning chemical reactions, more specifically, how light and photosynthesis with and without drama affected 180 10^th grade (boys and girls) students’ achievements in Israeli middle schools. Exams were prepared and distributed to the students before each topic was taught in the relevant class (pre-test). Then the topic was taught through drama and by means of conventional teaching, after which the exam was administered once again as a post-test. The findings showed that learning chemistry with drama contributes both to students’ achievements and to their interest in studying chemistry, and it positively affects students’ achievements in tenth grade.

KEYWORDS

Drama, Effectiveness, Achievement, Motivation

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Najami, N. , Hugerat, M. , Khalil, K. and Hofstein, A. (2019) Effectiveness of Teaching Science by Drama. Creative Education, 10, 97-110. doi: 10.4236/ce.2019.101007.

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