Performing-arts lesson pattern: play performance followed by teacher-led question and answer

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Evidence · 2 claims (2 for) · 1 study (1 causal), q3 · 1 of 1 report an effect size · 2 claims rest on one study

Description

A repeatable lesson structure in which a prepared play related to the lesson topic is performed at the start of class and the regular course teacher then leads discussion. As the article describes it, "In the first 20-30 minutes of each lesson (time varies by subject and play), the plays were performed by the researcher and her team, and in the remaining time, the questions were answered by the social studies teacher of the class". Plays were distributed across the unit's themes (Karagöz and Hacivat, storytelling, puppetry, village play, theater) with prepared questions given to the teacher as material.

Design Implications

Context

Requirements

• Play texts prepared in line with expert opinion for scope validity and subject integrity
• Rehearsals done with a specialist team and teachers informed about application stages
• Advance-prepared questions about the play's subject given to the course teacher as material

Constraints

• Performances required the researcher's team to bring equipment to each school about half an hour before lessons
• Plays had to be performed simultaneously in all schools in the same week to avoid conflicts

Target Learners

• 6th-grade secondary school students

Learning Goals

• Social studies unit content knowledge and permanence of knowledge

Claims

• Performing Arts Social Studies Achievement Gain [+M]
• Performing Arts Knowledge Permanence [+M]

Related Designs

Examples

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Key Sources

• Kenan BAŞ, Esen DURMUŞ. (2019). Pre-test the Effect of Teaching Social Studies Course through Performing Arts on the Students’ Academic Achievement and Permanence of their Knowledge. International Journal of Education & Literacy Studies 7(2). https://doi.org/10.7575/aiac.ijels.v.7n.2p.107

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Field	Value
type	design
id	perform-play-then-question-answer-lesson-pattern
title	Performing-arts lesson pattern: play performance followed by teacher-led question and answer
description	A repeatable lesson structure in which a prepared play related to the lesson topic is performed at the start of class and the regular course teacher then leads discussion.
status	review
generated	by process:settle-candidates on 2026-11-01
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sources	1 — kenan-baş-2019

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