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For the 21. century societies where scientific researches is at the forefront, the existence of individuals with problem solving, critical thinking, creative thinking and effective decision-making skills gains importance. These qualifications which have become universal values; express the importance of thinking skills. Early periods are critical for development of thinking skills. The purpose of this research is to examine scientific studies on early thinking skills in Turkey. Research data was collected by document review. Data/research for document analysis has been obtained from the National Thesis Center and Google Scholar databases. The documents in this research are related to early thinking skills and associated with early thinking skills such as problem-solving skills, creative thinking skills, critical thinking skills and decision-making skills. Documents; consisted of articles master’s theses and doctoral dissertations conducted in Turkey in 2002 and later. When the documents are analyzed, studies on problem solving skills were detected to be more numerous than other sub-skills. It was found that the problem-solving skills was mostly focused on "social problem solving" dimension. Different approaches, activities, family and environmental factors are included in creative thinking skills studies. Any studies regarding critical thinking and decision-making skills studied with children. It was seen that most of the thesis dissertation conducted in 2010 or later.

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