The effect of media literacy to the perceptions of secondary school students television series messages

Since 2007- 2008 academic years, media literacy course is taught as an optional course all schools in Turkey in the one of 6th, 7th or 8th grade. This course significantly tackles television. The purpose of this paper is to determine the effect of media literacy to the perceptions of secondary school student television series messages.In this study, pre-test and post-test experimental method was used with control group. Population consists of 6th grade students from Merkez Primary School and Istiklal Primary School in Çanakkale. Sample consists of 20 students as control group chosen by random sampling among the study universe. With students in experimental group that joined ?twelve hours media literacy course? has taught ?Television? and ?Television, Family, Child? units in smart classroom with constructivism and then it was carried out ?Media Literacy Form? as pre-test and post-test to experimental and control groups. In order to analyze the data, frequency and mean values for students? describing results, t test for determining the significant differences between pre-test and post-test results of variables and Two- Way ANOVA for Independent Samples for determining the significant differences between pre-test and post-test results according to variables of gender were used.In the result of study, it has been concluded that media literacy course help students in gaining to analyze and assessment skill of television series messages.