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This study was conducted to find out how much the educational comics are effective on teaching
earthquake subject which takes place in 5th grade, Social Studies lesson, the unit of “Let’s Learn Our
Region.” Within the context of quantitative methodology, pretest-posttest control group quasiexperimental
design was used in the study. 114 5th grade students studying in two different state
schools from Hatay city center in 2014-2015 academic year spring term, participated. “Earthquake
Attitude Scale” and “Academic Standing Scale for Earthquake” were used as instrument to collect
data. Teaching for the experimental group was carried out with educational comics prepared by the
researcher, and it was carried out for the control group with no intervention. The implementation
lasted for two weeks. At the end of the implementation, the study finished by doing the post-tests for
experimental and control groups. At the end of the study, the data was analyzed by using manyvariance
analyze (MANOVA) via SPSS 17.00 program. With the result of the findings, it was found
that the use of educational comic strips created a significant difference in favors of the experimental
group students’ attitude to earthquake and academic success.
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