The Relationship of STEM Attitudes and Reflective Thinking Skills on Problem-Solving
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2020
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info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Özet
The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between STEM attitudes of middle-school students and their reflective thinking skills on problem-solving. For this aim, a survey was administered toa total of 576 students, including between 5-8 grades. In this study, the “STEM Attitude Scale” andthe “Reflective Thinking Skill on Problem Solving Scale” were used as the data collection tools. Theresults showed that significant differences were found for the students’ reflective thinking skills on problem-solving in terms of gender, questioning, and reasoning dimensions in favor of female students.Also, significant differences among grade-levels were found in the questioning and evaluation dimensions of the reflective thinking skill on the problem-solving scale. Besides, significant differences werefound in the engineering and technology dimensions in favor of female students and also in the mathematics and 21st-century skills dimensions in terms of grade-levels. Based on the findings obtained fromthis study, implications for teaching are made.
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Eğitim, Eğitim Araştırmaları
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OPUS Uluslararası Toplum Araştırmaları Dergisi
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16
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27
