Abstract:

In this study, the effect of creative drama on the communication skills of social services students is researched The study was conducted with the fifty-eight selected subject (twenty-eight for experimental group and twenty-six for control group) from among the students who study at a social services department in Ankara. In this study, an experimental research design with pre-test/post-test and control group was used. A training program that contains twelve sessions and is based on communication skills development was developed by the researchers and implemented to students. �Communication Skills Assessment Scale� which was developed by Korkut (1997) was used as an assessment instrument. Wilcoxon Test and Mann Whitney U Test was used to control whether there is a significant difference between the points of the experimental and the control groups. According to obtained data of the study, there was a significant difference between the pre-test/post-test of the experimental group while there was no significant difference for the control group.

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