Abstract:

The aim of this study is to determine the 7th grade students’ level of reflective thinking skills towards problem solving and to examine whether there is a significant difference between students' gender and their this skill. In the study, the survey and causal comparison model was adopted. The study group of the study is consist of 395 7th grade students who continued their education in Ordu city center and district schools in the year of 2017-2018 education. In this study, "The Reflective Thinking Skills towards Problem Solving Scale" developed by Kızılkaya and Askar (2009) for elementary school students was used as data collection tool. Data obtained from the study was analyzed by descriptive statistics and the Mann-Whitney U Test. As a result of the findings in the study, it was concluded that 7th grade students had a high level of reflective thinking skills towards problem solving in terms of the whole scale and all its sub dimensions (inquiry, evaluation and reasoning). Moreover, there is no statistically significant difference between 7th grade students’ reflective thinking skills towards problem solving and gender.

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