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The purpose of the current study employing the relational survey model is to investigate the relationship between the attitudes of the pre-service teachers attending the Turkish Teaching Department of Muğla Sıtkı Koçman University towards the creative drama method and their self-efficacy perceptions. As the data collection tools, the “Scale of Self-Efficacy Perception of Using the Creative Drama Method” developed by Can and Cantürk Günhan (2009) and the “Creative Drama Attitude Scale” developed by Okvuran (2000) were used in the current study. The population of the study is comprised of 123 third-year and fourth-year students who have taken the course of “Theatre and Drama Applications” and the data collection tools were administered to 106 students from among these 123 students as they were available. After the invalid scales were eliminated, the analyses were conducted on the scales of 84 students. Correlation analysis was conducted to determine the relationship between the pre-service teachers’ attitudes towards the creative drama method and self-efficacy perceptions and descriptive statistics and independent samples t-test were used to determine whether the pre-service teachers’ attitudes towards the creative drama and their self-efficacy perceptions vary significantly depending on gender, grade level and whether having taken any creative drama training other than the course of “Theatre and Drama Applications”. The results of the analyses have revealed that there is a high, positive and significant correlation between the pre-service teachers’ attitudes towards the creative drama method and their self-efficacy perception of using the creative drama method. Moreover, the pre-service teachers’ attitudes and self-efficacy perceptions were found to be not varying significantly depending on gender and grade level. While the pre-service teachers’ self-efficacy perceptions were found to be not varying significantly depending on whether having taken any other creative drama training other than the course of “Theatre and Drama Applications”, their attitudes towards the creative drama method were found to be varying significantly depending on whether having taken any drama training other than the course of “Theatre and Drama Applications” in favour of those having taken such training.

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