@article{2013,title={AN INVESTIGATION OF THE EFFECT OF DRAMA METHOD ON STUDENTS’ ACHIEVEMENTS IN SOCIAL STUDIES AND CONSCIOUS CONSUMERISM},abstractNode={This study examined the effect of drama method on students’ achievement, conscious consumerism in Social Studies Instructional Programs of primary school fourth grade, “From Production to Consume” unit. The study group consisted of 40 fourth grade students including 20 test group and 20 control group. The research was designed in accordance with an experimental research model composed of pre-test and post-test with control and experimental groups. The achievement test was applied as retention test after process. As data collection tool “Scale for the Level of Conscious Consumerism” and “From Production to Consume Achievement Test” were used. Alpha reliability coefficient of the achievement test was .95; the scale was .77. In the analysis of data, two-way ANOVA was used to examine the main and interaction effects of test groups to pre-test, post-test and retention test; t-test was used to examine level of conscious consumerism. The result of the research showed that there is a significant difference between the total points of the post-test and retention-test of the test group and control group in favor of test group. The result of “Scale for the Level of Conscious Consumerism” showed that mean of the test group is higher than control group but it made no difference statistically. According to result of study drama method is useful for academic achieve and retention in social studies introduction. It is suggested that providing active participation methods should be used in conscious consumerism instruction.},author={Faruk MALBELEĞİ-- Halil İbrahim SAĞLAM},year={2013},journal={The Journal of Academic Social Science Studies}}