The effect of dramatic theater technique on the academic vitality, vitality and social growth of elementary students

The current research was conducted with the aim of the effect of dramatic theater technique on the academic vitality, vitality and social development of primary school students, with a semi-experimental method with a pre-test and post-test design and experimental and control groups. The statistical population of all second grade students of Sari city in the academic year of 2022-2023 was 5382 people, 40 of them with the same characteristics were selected as a sample. In the first stage, multi-stage cluster random sampling was done from all the elementary schools, the second grade of Sari city, and in the second stage, in a simple random way and based on lottery, the students were divided into two experimental groups (20 people). and control (20 people) were assigned. The measuring instruments, Martin and Marsh (2006), Tamizhifar and Azizi Mehr social vitality (2016) and Weiland social growth questionnaires were distributed and implemented in both groups. After scoring, while the control group was trained in the usual way, the students of the experimental group were trained according to the dramatic theater technique in the science lesson in 10 sessions of 45 minutes. The reliability of the measurement tool was obtained using Cronbach's alpha as 0.84, 0.78 and 0.92 respectively. The collected data were used using descriptive statistics (mean and standard deviation) and inferential statistics (correlated t-test and covariance analysis). The results showed that dramatic theater technique has influenced and increased the academic vitality, vitality and social growth of second grade elementary students in Sari city.