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Öcal, Erdinç – International Journal of Contemporary Educational Research, 2022
The aim of this study was to examine the effects of science theater plays on secondary school students' attitudes towards the subject of science and their views on scientists. The study was conducted with 38 seventh-grade secondary school students over a six-month period. The "Scale of Attitudes Towards the Subject of Science" and the…
Descriptors: Grade 7, Secondary School Students, Theater Arts, Science Education
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Lo, Chih-Cheng; Wen, Hsifu; Lin, Yi-Shuang – SAGE Open, 2021
While the effect of Readers Theater (RT) on English oral reading fluency has been extensively investigated, research on the effect of RT on adolescents' English reading and listening comprehension was scant and yielded different results. This research aimed to explore how RT instruction influenced English as a Foreign Language (EFL) students,…
Descriptors: Theater Arts, Reading Instruction, Reading Fluency, Reading Comprehension
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McKinley-Hicks, Megan – International Journal of Science Education, Part B: Communication and Public Engagement, 2020
This paper highlights an investigation of how middle school students responded to a theatre performance designed to portray science as a humanistic and relatable endeavour that youth -- similar to the youth in the audience -- engage in during their everyday lives. The play included in this study was generated as a part of a design research project…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Middle School Students, Theater Arts, Cooperation
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Walker, Elaine; Tabone, Carmine; Weltsek, Gustave – Language Arts, 2011
In this research, two questions related to arts integration are studied: First, the extent to which sixth and seventh grade students' language arts and mathematics performance, as well as their engagement with school are positively impacted by classroom settings in which theater strategies are integrated into language arts instruction; and second,…
Descriptors: Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Theater Arts
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Pitts, Stephanie E. – Music Education Research, 2007
This paper reports on an empirical investigation into secondary school students' experiences of participating in a school production of the Cole Porter musical, "Anything Goes." The study was prompted by the absence in the research literature of any qualitative investigation of the extra-curricular activities that form a vital part of…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Social Development, Diaries, Foreign Countries
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Gervais, Marie – International Journal of Education & the Arts, 2006
The connection between drama and moral education in young adolescence has not been widely researched. This study examines the role of process drama. In this study process drama is defined as educational drama for awareness and conflict resolution through the creation of a dramatic collective exploring the moral values of junior high school age…
Descriptors: Moral Values, Theater Arts, Ethical Instruction, Early Adolescents