Data Collection Tools
The writing part of “Basic Reading-Writing Skills Scale” was used in order to measure the writing skills of the students at the beginning of the term in the study. The scale was developed by Yangın in 2007. The reliability of the scale is 0.87. This scale determining the basic reading-writing skills is composed of 108 questions, 54 of which are for reading skills and 54 of which are for writing skills. The highest score that can be obtained from the scale is 108.