Effects of Educational Song and Game Techniques on the Academic Achievement of Students and Retention of the Achievement

Aim of this research is to investigate effects of lessons which are taught by using pedagogical songs and games on academic success of students and permanence of this success in “Let’s know matter” unit in the fourth-grade Science course. Model group of the research was composed of 38 fourth-grade students of two different classes of Cumhuriyet Primary School run by Minister of National Education in Bayburt city center in fall semester of 20162017 School Year. The main data collection instrument was the Let’s Know Matter Success Test (MTBT). One of the classrooms was selected randomly as the experimental group (n=22) and the other was selected as the control group (n=16). While the students in the experimental taught according to teaching methods and techniques appropriate to learning outcomes envisaged in the curriculum of the science course.Paired Samples t-test and Independent Samples t-tests were utilized to analyze the data. According the results of statistical analysis, it is seen that use of pedagogical songs and games increases academic success of students and permanence of this success