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HACETTEPE UNIVERSITESI EGITIM FAKULTESI DERGISI-HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY JOURNAL OF EDUCATION, no.42, pp.131-142, 2012 (SSCI)
The objective of the present study is to investigate the pre-school prospective teachers' level of self efficacy on using the creative drama method and the relationship between several variables and their self efficacy levels. The participants were 190 second, third and fourth year students who attended Department of Pre-School Education during 20082009 and who took the Creative Drama Lesson. The students were given the Self Efficacy Scale Regarding The Use of Creative Drama. Among these students, four students who were chosen by extreme or deviant case sampling were interviewed. The analysis revealed that pre-school prospective teachers' self efficacy on using the creative drama method is in good level and their self-efficacy levels on using the creative drama method differ meaninfully depending on their class, gender and whether they received additional work-shop instruction on the method. The results also revealed differences between the pre-school prospective teachers with high and low self efficacy levels on using the creative drama method.