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The aim of this study was to examine the levels of critical thinking and empathy of students studying in the physical education sports school and science faculty and to reveal the difference between these two variables. In the research, a method for descriptive scanning and relational scanning, which aimed to reveal the current situation, was used. The universe of the research consists of students studying at Bartın University in the 2017-2018 academic year. The study comprised a total of 673 (n(male)= 362, n(female) = 311) selected by random cluster sampling method from School of Physical Education and Sports and Science Faculty students in 2017-2018 academic year. In the research, “Personal Information Form” prepared by the researcher, “Critical Thinking Tendency Scale” developed by Semerci (2003) and Empathic Tendency Scale (EES) developed by Dökmen (1988) were used as data collection tools. In the research, t test was used for binary comparisons and One Way Variance Analysis (ANOVA) was used for three or more cluster comparisons. Tukey HSD multiple comparison test was used to determine the source of the differences found to be significant as a result of ANOVA, because the variances are homogeneous. Pearson Moments Product Correlation (r) Coefficient technique was used to reveal the relationship between the participants' critical thinking disposition and their empathy. Significance level was taken as p <0.05. According to the results of the research, it was concluded that when variables such as gender, actively doing sports (Faculty of Science), reading habit, income level were taken into account, there was a significant difference in terms of empathic tendency total scores. There was a statistically significant difference between the critical thinking disposition metacognition, flexibility, systematicity subscales according to the reading variable, and the critical thinking disposition resilience sub-dimension point average in terms of faculty variable.

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