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The objective of the study is the 9th and 12th high school institutions. It is the study of the spatial thinking skills of students studying at class level. Research is a quantum state study in the general scan model. The study sample consists of a group of 400 students studying in the educational year 2020-2021 in various secondary educational institutions such as social sciences, science, Anadolu and vocational high schools located in the Central District of Zorum. The study sample is determined by the layer random sample method. The sample layers are formed by high school types, and the selection of the sample from these layers is made by random or random sample. A survey form is used as a data collection tool through Google forms. The first part of the survey includes class, high school, and gender demographic questions, while the second part includes the Local Thinking Skills Test (MDBT). This survey form was sent to students online due to pandemic conditions. The structural validity of MDBT has also been confirmed by the explicative factor analysis (AFA) and the verifying factor analysis, and it has been determined that MDBT is a valid and reliable scale that can be used to measure the spatial thinking skills of high school students. In the analysis of the data, the Mann-Whitney-Wilcoxon (MWW) or Kruskal-Wallis tests were applied according to the data structure to study the impact of demographic variables on the MDBT points. Analysis results showed that the type of secondary school, class level, LGS score and geography exam score variables in the MDBT scores have statistically significant differences between the groups.

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