The effects of drama based digital storytelling program to 6 age childrens' some social skills

In this quasi experimental study, the effects of drama based digital storytelling program to 6 age childrens' some social skills were investigated. The study was conducted at a public pre-school in the district of Efeler-Aydın in 2016-2017 academic year. The participants of the study were 48 students that were divided into an experimental group and a control group. In the study which lasted 10 weeks, activities in the drama based "Digital Storytelling" program were used in experimental group and activities in the pre-school curriculum were used in the control group.The measurement instrument "Social Skills Assessment Scale"(Avcıoğlu,2007) was given as a pre-test and post-test. In the beginning of the research, "Personal Information Form" was given to find out the characteristics of the experimental group and control group.In the study, the data obtained by "Social Skills Assessment Scale" was operated by statistics computer program SPSS 23.0. Covariance analysis was used to find out if there was a meaningful difference. The level of significance was p<.05. As a result, meaningful differences were observed in favor of the experimental group in terms of total points obtained from the Social Skills Assessment Scale.There was a significant difference in favor of the experimental group in terms of "Controlling the anger behaviour and the abilities of adapting to changes","Coping with the peer pressure","Verbal description skills","Listening skills","Creating aim skills" and "Completing the tasks skills" sub-scales scores.There was no significant difference among experimental and control groups in terms of "Interpersonal Skills","Self-Control Skills" and "Skills to Accept Results" sub-scales scores.