Abstract:

The aim of this research is to ensure that the faculty of education students adapt to the university through a program of orientation prepared with the creative drama method.  In this study, the preliminary test - the final test control group-free experimental research scheme was used. The research work group, in the beginning of the 2017-2018 academic year, formed 24 volunteer teachers candidates to study at the Faculty of Education of an university located in the Mediterranean region that began the first class in different disciplines (matematical education, social information education, science knowledge education, classroom teaching and psychological consultancy education) in the different disciplines. As a data collection tool in the study, Aladağ, Kağnıcı, Tuna and Tezer (2003) used the University Life Scale (MED), which was developed to measure the levels of adaptation to university life of newly beginners in general, with the aim of measuring the different aspects of adaptation to university. Seven liquor species prepared for a original scale of a size consisting of 48 ingredients was removed because it was not intended for the purpose of the study and 41 ingredients were taken into use. The validity and reliability studies on the number of substances applied to the measurement ended with the Cronbach Alpha (α) value of 0.97. The data obtained from the teacher candidates in the study group with the University Life Scale (MED) is SPSS 21 in the computer environment. The findings analyzed and identified by entering the 0 program are interpreted by tables. The results of the study should be assessed in general, the study group teachers candidates have successfully achieved their adaptation to the university after the study and according to the durability test results performed 2 months after the study was achieved the durability of adaptation to the university. In light of these findings, it is possible to say that the orientation work prepared with the creative drama method in the processes of adaptation of teachers candidates to the university can be effective. Given the results of the study, it can be recommended to support the university adaptation programs, the content of the most possible adaptation programs to be achieved with creative drama events.