The Effect of Coping with Test Anxiety Study Based Creative Drama on Gifted Students’ Test Anxiety

In this study, it was aimed to investigate the effectiveness of the coping with test anxiety study based creative drama on scores of gifted high school students. Experimental and control group of the research comprised of 28 gifted high school students who attended Science and Art Center in the 2016-2017 academic year. Of these students, 14 were in the experimental group (5 males, 9 females) and 10 in the control group (4 males, 10 females). Participants in the study group were determined on a voluntary basis. With the experiment group, 60-minute 6-sessions test anxiety study based on creative drama was conducted. The Study Anxiety Scale consisting of 20 items was used in the study. Pre-test, post-test, control group semi-experimental design was used in the research. Participants of the experimental group participating in the test anxiety training study based on creative drama and participants in the control group who did not participate in this study were compared and there were significant differences in the test anxiety post-test scores in favor of the experimental group