Use of the studying sheets while teaching Turkish illumination art at the course of visual arts in the 10th class of secondary education

In this research, use of the studying sheets while teaching illumination art which is one of the curriculum subjects of the visual arts course in the 10th class of secondary education has been investigated on the effect for the student how to learn the illumination art through the sample of Ali Üsküdârî. Accordingly, the research has been modelled on the experimental design with pre test ? final test controlling group.The research was conducted by the 40 students of the 10th class in 2010-2011 Academic Year. Within the duration of two weeks, together with the students existing in the experimental group of the research (n=20), illumination art was told, they were given the studying sheets, and they were asked to obey the instructions in the sheets, and to read the studying sheets. Beside, lesson was taught through the classical methods together with the controlling group (n=20) students. The data to get used in the research has been obtained by using the success test of illumination art. While analyzing the data, the test for the independent groups and dependent groups has been used.At the results obtained by analyzing the data, it has been understood that the success of the students in the experimental group has increased at the end of the application process of illumination art with the studying sheets, and furthermore, it has been observed that this increase is higher than the controlling group. Beside, the increase at the points that the students in the controlling group got from the achievement test of Illumination Art has been found out four times higher than the control group. The results obtained indicates that teaching the subject of illumination art which ise one of visual arts curriculums in secondary education through the studying sheets causes increase at the achievement of student.Key Words : Illumination Art, Education of Visual Arts, Studying Sheets. Ali Üsküdârî.