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The purpose of this research is to explore the critical thinking attitudes of the prospective teachers in terms of gender, academic achievement, age, class level and department type variables. Research data were collected from 326 prospective teachers (197, Female; 129, Male) who have been studied at the faculty of education of a foundation university in Istanbul. In order to measure the critical thinking attitudes of the teacher candidates participating in the research, Critical Thinking Scale (CTS), which was located in the literature. Some data such as gender, general achievement averages, age, class level and department type of participants were also collected. In conclusion of Mann Whitney U and Kruskal Wallis H tests and correlation analysis performed on the data, it is revealed that there is a significance relationship between the critical thinking attitudes of prospective teachers and department type and academic achievement. The obtained results were evaluated in the light of the relevant literature.

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