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The aim of this study is to reveal the attitudes of secondary school students towards historical knowledge within the scope of the Social Studies course. The descriptive research method, one of the quantitative research methods, was used in the research, and the cross-sectional survey model was applied as its design. In the study, 492 students (233 girls, 259 boys) studying at the 5th, 6th and 7th grade levels in 8 different public schools in the Zara district of Sivas province in the second semester of the 2022-2023 academic year were determined. To obtain the study data, a personal information form prepared by the researcher and the "Scale for Determining Primary School Students' Opinions on Historical Information", developed as a result of the joint work of Özbaş and Aslan (2012), were used. While analyzing the data, non-parametric T-Test was applied to students' attitudes towards historical knowledge according to gender, and ANOVA Post-Hoc Gabriel test was applied to the class variable. Kruskall Wallis-H test and Mann Whitney-U test were used for the variables of number of siblings, parents' education level and last year's social studies course report card grade. SPSS 22 package program was used for exploratory factor analysis and AMOS program was used for confirmatory factor analysis. Based on the results, it has been seen that the development of historical knowledge, transfer of historical knowledge and source of historical knowledge sub-factors, which are among the scale sub-factors, give meaningful results in more than one variable. From the study findings Based on this, necessary recommendations were made. According to the analysis results, when the gender variable was examined, it was concluded that there was a significant difference in the attitudes of boys compared to girls within the student group. When looking at student attitudes, it was concluded that all of the scale sub-factors were not significant when the variables were considered one by one.

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