An Experimental Study on Development Critical Thinking Skills via Educational Drama as a Teaching Method

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of a Drama Based Critical Thinking Skills
Training Program on 2nd grade bachelor degree students’ (who are attending to a preschool teacher
training program) critical thinking skills. This is a quasi-experimental study. Totally 50 students
areequally divided into two different groups as they are experimental group and control group.
Experimental group has attended to 10 sessions of a course as drama based training program. It has
been prepared to promote students’ critical thinking skills. California Critical Thinking Disposition
Inventory (CCTDI) has been offered as pre-test and post-test to both groups in order to obtain the
data. It has been found that there issignificance on behalf of experimental groupby the end of this
study. It also has been found that the continuity of training program (p> ,05).