Investigation of the effect of value education course on value perceptions in primary school 4 th students word association test and picture drawings

This study, it wasaimed to examinethe effect of applying the value of patriotism, being economicaland hardworking in thecurriculum of thefourthgradestudents of the Ministry of National Education (MEB) independently from the courses with out the need forinter disciplinary correlation. A parallel pattern converging the mixed method using qualitative and quantitative research methods was applied. Data during the study A study group was formed from the students studying in the fourth grade of thre eprimary schools with a socio-economic level difference in the citycenter of Uşak. The studygroup of the study consisted of 36 students. The implementationprocess with the students lasted 12 weeks. Theapplication is planned in four-weeks licesforeach value. Intheapplicationprocess, as a pre-test forpatriotism, saving and hardworking value Painting drawings were madetoallow sand students to Express them selvesvisually. Lessons were taught with the role-playing method that allows students to be active during the four-week processand to be activeduringthefour- week processbyconductingpre testing values of patriotism, saving, and hardworking, respectively. Then, foreach value applied, KIT and students' Picture drawings were requested as post-test. Intheapplication process, KIT pre-test and post-test results were analyzed with concept networks.According to there sults of the analysis, it was seen that there was a significant change in the answer words for patriotism, saving and hard working values. Intherelated samples t test conducted to analyze student pictures, it was concluded that therewas a significantincrease in someresults of student scores in all three schools, while there was nosignificantincrease in someresults. According to the seresults, while students can Express them selvesverbally, it can be said that the yareinsufficient to express them selvesvisually. Inaddition, it was concludedthatduring the interviews with the students, all three school students showed a positive attitudetowards the application. According to the findingsobtained as a result; It can be said that the values education course is more successful than the values education applied by making interdisciplinary associations