Çetin TORAMAN & Özgür ULUBEY
The purpose of this study is both to gather the experimental studies which investigate the effect of creative drama on the attitudes of students towards the courses and to synthesize the findings of these studies. The studies within the scope of this current research were obtained from various databases such as “ProQuest Citations, Council of Higher Education National Thesis Center, Google Scholar, EBSCO, Taylor & Francis Online, Ebscohost, ERIC and Science Direct” by using keywords like drama, creative drama, creative drama method, attitude and attitude towards course. From the database searches, a total of 30 studies (12 articles, 16 master’s theses and two doctoral dissertations) which examined the effect of creative drama method on students’ attitudes towards different courses and which were in accordance with the criteria for the meta-analysis, were obtained. The data were analyzed by using the “Comprehensive Meta-Analysis (CMA)” and “Data Analysis and Statistical Software (STATA)” programs. As the studies included in the metaanalysis distributed heterogeneously, the effect size of the studies were calculated by applying random effects model. According to the results of this study, it was identified that creative drama method positively affected the attitudes of students towards the courses. In the experimental studies, the differences in students’ attitudes towards their courses were investigated in the direction of moderator variables. Among these moderator variables, not only the period of experimental process, but also the educational level of the participants who were implemented the experimental applications created a significant difference in the effect size, whereas the other variables did not have a significant difference.
