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This study aims to determine the effects of the teaching material design process carried out by preservice art teachers for the teaching of the subject of principles of artistic organization to primary school students on the preservice teachers’ psychomotor domain attainments. The study group consisted of 35 preservice art teachers enrolled in the course titled “Teaching Techniques and Material Design” in the Faculty of Education in Abant İzzet Baysal University, Bolu, Turkey. Data was compiled by means of interviews, observation, and document analysis, and analyzed on Nvivo 7 Quantitative data analysis software using the technique of content analysis. The findings suggest that, as a result of the learning activity, preservice teachers acquired psychomotor skills of preparing slideshows, concept maps, knowledge maps, mind maps, worksheets, and three-dimensional material, that  their design of teaching material helped preservice teachers to comprehend principles of artistic organization, that they found it enjoyable and useful to design teaching material, and that they would like to make use of what they had learned in their professional career. Based on these findings, three suggestions can be made: [1] interactive learning approaches that can be useful for preservice teachers to acquire psychomotor skills need to be promoted; [2] the course of teaching technologies and material design should cover two semesters and be provided by specialists, and [3] learning material directed at visual arts teaching need to be designed.

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