HANDBOOK OF CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT, ss.303-327, 2010 (SSCI)
This study, conducted with 28 sixth-grade students, investigated the effect of a summarizing teaching program on summarizing skills. The students were grouped as proficient and less proficient students and were presented teaching activities of 8 hours. The aim of this study was to comparatively test the effect of a) giving summarizing education, b) giving expository text (problem solving) education in addition to summarizing education against giving no summarizing education. Three study groups were used in the study: A Control Group (Group C) who were given traditional education, and two experiment groups. Experiment Group 1 (Group E1) was given both summarizing and text structure education, and Experiment Group 2 (Group E2) was given summarizing education. The results of the study show the positive effect: of the teaching program on the experiment groups. The groups who were given summarizing and text structure education were more successful than the ones given only summarizing education.