Impact of Science Education Enriched with Cartoons on Students' Success and Attitude

Abstract

This study aims to investigate the impact of science education enriched with cartoons on student success and attitude. The study took a total of 17 weeks, in the spring semester of the 2017-2018 academic year in a secondary school in Denizli, with fifth-grade students consisting of 141 students, 70 students in the experimental group, and 71 students in the control group. The experimental and control groups were randomly determined by purposive sampling. In the study, a semi-experimental pattern with the pretest-final test control group was used. The Science Achievement Test developed by the researcher to measure the students' knowledge was used as a data collection tool. The Science Attitude Scale developed by Kececi (2014) was used to measure students' attitudes towards science lessons. In addition, the Cartoon Supported Lecture Pages and Concept Caricature Worksheets containing the goals and achievements of the units were prepared by the researcher. Descriptive analysis was performed in the research, and the Mann-Whitney U test was used. As a result of the analysis, it was determined that teaching science supported by cartoons increased students ' academic success but did not significantly change their attitude to the science course.