Determination of Creative Story Writing Skill Levels of Secondary School 7th Grade Students

Abstract

In this study, it was aimed to determine the creative story writing skill levels of seventh grade secondary school students. The research is a quantitative research and designed in survey design. The study group of the research consists of a total of 121 seventh grade secondary school students who were determined by convenience sampling technique. The research data were obtained by having the students in the study group write creative story texts and evaluating these texts with a rubric developed by the researcher. The collected data were presented as descriptive statistics (frequency, min. and max. values, arithmetic mean, standard deviation) with the help of statistical software. As a result of the research, it was determined that the scores of the students' creative story writing skills were generally low and medium level. In addition, in terms of sub-dimensions, except for two sub-dimensions (imagination, form), students' mean scores were found to be low and medium level.

Keywords

• writing, creative writing, rubric