The Relationship Between Pre-Service Teachers’ Critical Thinking Tendencies and Problem Solving Skills

Authors : Gürbüz OCAK, Eray EĞMİR

Pages : 33-44

Doi:10.17275/per.16.spi.2.4

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Publication Date : 2016-02-01

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :The aim of this study is to determine the relationship between pre-service teachers’ critical thinking tendencies and problem solving skills. Besides, the other problem of the study is whether problem solving skills show significant difference according to the critical thinking tendency level and according to the compound effect of critical thinking tendency level with gender, department and grade level respectively. The sample of the study consists of 224 1st and 2nd grade pre-service teachers studying at Afyon Kocatepe University Education Faculty. The California Critical Thinking Disposition Inventory, which was developed by Facione and Giancarlo insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(1998); and adapted into Turkish by Kökdemir insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(2003); and Problem Solving Inventory, which was developed by Heppner and Petersen insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(1982); and adapted into Turkish by Şahin, Şahin and Heppner insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(1993); are used as means of data collection in the study. According to the findings of the study, a significant and positive relationship between pre-service teachers’ critical thinking tendencies and problem solving skills was found. According to the pre-service teachers’ critical thinking tendency level insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(low, positively, high);, problem solving skills and sub-dimensions show a significant difference. However problem solving skills show no significant differences according to the compound effect of critical thinking tendency level with gender, department and grade level
Keywords : critical thinking tendency, problem solving skill, pre service teacher