THE EFFECTIVENESS OF ART ACTIVITY USING DRAWING APPROACH IN IMPROVING ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT AMONG CHILDREN WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES
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2024-10-03
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Masarwa, Samah
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An-Najah National Universityجامعة النجاح
Abstract
Background: Art therapy integrates traditional theories of psychotherapy, techniques from the field of psychology, theories involve the processes of creativity and the various characteristic and use of craft materials.
Methodology : To assess the effect of art therapy through drawing on children with learning disabilities, the experimental design as a randomized control trial is used for that purpose. The sample size is 50 students; the research group consists of (25 students) on whom the learning and treatment by drawing is conducted. The sample sit for tests in Arabic and arithmetic (they do tests before and after the treatment and their scores before and after are compared). The control group (25 students) do the tests at the beginning and without doing any treatment, then they do the tests in Arabic and math and the scores are compared.
The sample of study includes second and third grade students with severe learning difficulties who can't read or write. Also, these students can't recognize and are not familiar with both Arabic letters and the numerals from one to ten. The objective behind utilizing drawing in art therapy is to help teaching these children improve their reading, writing and performing basics arithmetic.
To implement the procedures of this research, the following tools are used in order to assess students' knowledge before and after the teaching sessions. This assessment tool is called MATTIA (assessment set of exams). All assessment exams and drawing materials used in this research are taken from MATTIA - the Ministry of Education in Israel.
The objective of MATIA, Municipal-District Support Center, is to serve as a support system for regular and special education frameworks.
The pre-tests and post-tests are used to show any differences in the participants progress in Mathematics and Arabic. The post intervention score for Math and Arabic shows that there is significant differences between the case group and control group regarding math and Arabic- as the academic achievement is improved when drawing therapy is used.