Abstract:

The purpose of this study is to examine the prospective teachers’ reflective thinking tendencies. As a research method in the study descriptive survey method, which is one of the quantitative research methods, was utilized. The participants of the study is comprised of the third and fourth grade prospective teacher students who had been attending summer school classes in a state university in Istanbul. In order to determine the level of sample group prospective teachers’ reflective thinking tendencies “The Reflective Thinking Tendency Questionnaire for Teachers and Prospective Teachers” was used as a tool of data collection. According to the findings of the study, the level of prospective teachers’ reflective thinking tendencies is considerably high. It is also determined that the level of prospective teachers’ reflective thinking tendencies reveals no meaningful differences in connection with their ages, genders, teaching specialties, grades, university types, order of preferences for their faculty departments and whether they had graduated from a university before.

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