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Turkish Journal of Teacher Education 2025, Vol. 14(1) 51-69

The Effect of Digital Storytelling on Students’ Scientific Process Skills and Attitudes towards the Course

Serkan Sevim, Irmak Denizhan

pp. 51 - 69

Publish Date: June 30, 2025  |   Single/Total View: 0/0   |   Single/Total Download: 0/0


Abstract

This study aimed to investigate the effect of the digital storytelling method on 7th-grade students' scientific process skills and their attitudes toward the science course within the context of the "Cells and Cell Division" unit. We conducted an action research design, with a sample consisting of gifted students divided into experimental and control groups. We developed digital stories using Adobe Character Animator software for the students in the experimental group. During this process, we asked students to write scientifically grounded scripts based on the “Cells and Cell Division” topic and design appropriate characters and scenes. Then, they voiced the characters they had created, recorded their dialogues, and used features such as facial expression tracking, motion detection, and lip synchronisation offered by the software to generate their digital stories. We taught the students in the control group based on the content and learning outcomes specified in the Turkish Ministry of National Education's curriculum. We gathered data by using the "Scientific Process Skills Test" and the "Science Attitude Scale" to determine the impact of the intervention. The research findings revealed that the digital storytelling method had a statistically significant and positive effect on both the students' scientific process skills and their attitudes toward science. Throughout the digital storytelling process, we also observed that students actively participated in tasks such as scriptwriting, character design, voice acting, and animation, acting as content creators.

Keywords: Digital Storytelling, Science Education, Cells and Cell Division, Technology Supported Education, Scientific Process Skills


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Sevim, S., & Denizhan, I. (2025). The Effect of Digital Storytelling on Students’ Scientific Process Skills and Attitudes towards the Course. Turkish Journal of Teacher Education, 14(1), 51-69.

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Sevim, S. and Denizhan, I. (2025). The Effect of Digital Storytelling on Students’ Scientific Process Skills and Attitudes towards the Course. Turkish Journal of Teacher Education, 14(1), pp. 51-69.

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Sevim, Serkan and Irmak Denizhan (2025). "The Effect of Digital Storytelling on Students’ Scientific Process Skills and Attitudes towards the Course". Turkish Journal of Teacher Education 14 (1):51-69.

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