The Effectiveness of an Educational Program Based on Drama in Improving Scientific Concepts among Kindergarten Children

Abstract

The study aimed to demonstrate the effectiveness of an educational program based on the drama in improving Kindergarten children's scientific concepts. The current study followed the experimental approach with a quasi-experimental design with two experimental and control groups, with a pre and post-test. The research personnel was selected from kindergarten children in the age group of (4 6) years. Their number was (39) children in Baraem Al Shifa Kindergarten of the University Brigade Directorate in the capital Amman. They were distributed into two groups (experimental and control) (19) children in the experimental group and (20) children in the control group; the researcher prepared an educational program based on drama after referring to the previous educational literature that was applied to the experimental group. The researcher prepared the scientific concepts test consisting of (24) questions that were applied in the pre and post-test to the study groups. And after making sure of the suitability of its psychometric properties. The study results found that there is a difference between the mean scores of the members of the research group in the pre and post applications, to test social scientific concepts in a statistically significant manner and favor the post-application. It is evident that the educational program based on drama has contributed to developing scientific concepts among the research group members. In light of this, the study recommended that kindergarten teachers pay attention to developing scientific concepts in children. And the necessity of training kindergarten teachers to use the drama method to achieve kindergarten education goals.

Keywords: educational program - drama - scientific concepts - kindergarten children