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The purpose of this research is to determine the relation between elementary teacher candidates problem solving skills and attitudes towards problem based learning. Furthermore this research intend to determine if there is a significant difference in elementary teacher candidates problem solving skills and the attitudes towards problem based learning according to the variables of gender and their education program, or not. The research was carried out with a total of 199 third and fourth grade teacher candidates (100 female, 99 male) from Elementary Department of Faculty of Education at Siirt University in Turkey. It was used the “Problem Solving Inventory” which was developed by Heppner and Peterson (1982) and translated into Turkish by Şahin, Şahin and Heppner (1993) to determine the problem-solving skills of the teacher candidates and the “Problem-Based Learning Attitude Scale” which was developed by Turan and Demirel (2010) was used to determine their attitudes towards problem-based learning. In our research, it was calculated that the Cronbach alpha reliability coefficient of problem solving skills as .78 and the scale of attitudes towards problem based learning as .93. As a result of this research, the problem solving skills (M=87.91) and the attitudes towards problem based learning mean score (M=68.15) of elementary teacher candidates were found as medium level. It was found that there is no significant and negative relation between the elementary teacher candidates problem solving skills and attitudes towards problem based learning (r= .54; p>0.05).

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