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Thesis Type: Postgraduate
Institution Of The Thesis: Gazi University, Eğitim Bilimleri Enstitüsü, Okul Öncesi Eğitimi Bilim Dalı, Turkey
Approval Date: 2020
Thesis Language: Turkish
Student: ADEVİYE İNCİ AKYEL
Supervisor: Esra Ömeroğlu
Abstract:
This research was conducted for the purpose of exploring the effect of ‘Social Skills Training Program Supported With Digital Games’ on the development of social skills of children studying at preschool institutions. ‘Social Skill Training Program Supported With Digital Games’ was developed within the context of this research. The research was performed using quasi-experimental design applied as pre-test and post-test with control group. The study group is comprised of 49 children studying in the school year of 2018-2019 at two preschool classes of an elementary school affiliated with the Ministry of National Education of Turkey. The class with 25 children makes up the experimental group whereas the control group is the class with 24 children. ‘Social Skills Training Program Supported With Digital Games’ which was developed by the researcher was applied to the experimental group for two days per week during eight consecutive weeks. In the research, as the data collection tool, ‘Personal Information Form’ was used for obtaining data on children’s and their families’ demographic characteristics and ‘Teacher Form of the Preschool Social Skills Assessment Scale (PSSAS)’ was utilized for identifying children’s social skills. Prior to the application of the training program, ‘Personal Information Form’ and ‘PSSAS Teacher Form’ were filled in as pre-test by the teachers of each class representing experimental group and control group. After the application of the training program to the experimental group for eight weeks, ‘PSSAS Teacher Form’ was filled in again as post-test by the teachers of each class representing experimental group and control group. After three weeks following the implementation of pos-test, the permanency test was applied to the experimental group in order to find out the permanency of the training program which was offered to the experimental group. In the study, children’s and their families’ demographic characteristics were expressed as frequencies and percentages. In order to identify the effect of the educational program applied to children participating in ‘Social Skills Training Program Supported With Digital Games’, Mann-Whitney U Test and Wilcoxon Signed-Rank Test were used as the data were not normally distributed. At the end of the research, it was discerned that ‘Social Skills Training Program Supported With Digital Games’ which was prepared in the context of the research had positive effect on the attainment of social skills by children and this effect was permanent.
Keywords : Digital game, social skills, social skills education, pre-school education