The Predictive Power of Turkish Teachers’ Reflective Thinking Skills Perceptions in their Problem Solving Skills Perceptions

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 12
Author(s):  
Ceren KARAKOÇ ◽  
Özden DEMİR
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Education Program ◽  
Professional Education ◽  
Cognitive Skills ◽  
Reflective Thinking ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Problem Solving Skills ◽  
Professional Perspective ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Turkish Education

The Turkish education program has a great importance in terms of increasing the quality of education and training process and determining and developing the cognitive skills of students. The explanation of the relationship between the high-level thinking skills of Turkish teachers responsible for teaching the program and the Turkish education program reveals the necessity of the study. Accordingly, this research was created in order to determine the relationship between reflective thinking skills perceptions and problem solving skills perceptions that should be present in Turkish teaching. The sample of the study consists of 106 Turkish teachers who are working in eight districts of Kars Province. In this study, the Reflective Thinking Tendency Scale (YANDE) and Problem Solving Inventory (PSI) were used. The data were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistical methods. According to the findings, the relationships between total and sub-dimensions of Turkish teachers’ reflective thinking skills perceptions and their problem-solving skills perceptions were moderate. According to the findings; continuous and purposeful thinking, open-mindedness, questioner and effective teaching, teaching responsibility and scientificity, predictive and sincerity and professional perspective sub-dimensions of reflective thinking scale do not significantly predict any sub-dimension of problem solving. However, it is observed that the ‘researcher sub-dimension of the reflective thinking’ scale significantly predicts problem solving total scores, hasty approach scores, thinking approach scores and avoidant approach scores. The relationship between total and sub-dimensions of reflective thinking skills perceptions of Turkish teachers and total and sub-dimensions of problem solving skills perceptions was found to be at a moderate level. These thinking skills should be considered when planning activities in undergraduate and professional education to develop reflective thinking skills perceptions and problem solving skills perceptions of Turkish teachers.

scholarly journals Pembelajaran Lingkungan bagi Siswa: Hubungan Kemampuan Berpikir Kreatif dengan Kemampuan Pemecahan Masalah

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 6
Author(s):  
Diana Vivanti Sigit ◽  
Erna Heryanti ◽  
Dyah Ayu Widya Pangestika ◽  
Ilmi Zajuli Ichsan
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Random Sampling ◽  
Creative Thinking ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Simple Random Sampling ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Problem Solving Skills ◽  
Correlational Method ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Academic Year

<div align="center"><table width="645" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" width="439"><p><strong>Abstract:</strong> The ability to think creatively and problem solving is the ability that students must have in 21st century. The purpose of this research was to determine the relationship between creative thinking skills and students' problem solving abilities in environmental change material. The research method used is descriptive correlational method. The research was conducted at High School 4 Bekasi in semester of the 2018/2019 academic year. The sample was taken through simple random sampling technique as many as 138 students. The results showed a correlation coefficient between the ability to think creatively with students' problem solving abilities of 0.825. The conclusion of this study is that there is a positive relationship between the ability to think creatively with students' problem solving skills.</p><p class="Abstract"><strong>Abstrak:</strong><em> </em>Kemampuan berpikir kreatif dan pemecahan masalah adalah kemampuan yang harus dimiliki siswa untuk menghadapi tantangan abad ke-21. Tujuan penelitian ini untuk mengetahui hubungan antara kemampuan berpikir kreatif dan kemampuan pemecahan masalah siswa pada materi perubahan lingkungan. Metode penelitian yang digunakan adalah metode deskriptif korelasional. Penelitian dilaksanakan di SMA Negeri 4 Bekasi pada semester ganjil tahun ajaran 2018/2019. Sampel diambil melalui teknik simple random sampling sebanyak 138 siswa. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan koefisien korelasi antara kemampuan berpikir kreatif dengan kemampuan pemecahan masalah siswa sebesar 0,825. Kemampuan berpikir kreatif memberikan kontribusi sebesar 68% terhadap kemampuan pemecahan masalah siswa. Kesimpulan dari penelitian ini adalah terdapat hubungan positif antara kemampuan berpikir kreatif dengan kemampuan pemecahan masalah siswa.</p></td></tr></tbody></table></div>

scholarly journals The Relationship Between Students’ Reflective Thinking Skills and Levels of Solving Routine and Non-Routine Science Problems

2021 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-62
Author(s):  
Zeynel Kablan ◽  
◽  
Aslıhan Günen ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Reflective Thinking ◽  
Teaching Quality ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Eighth Grade ◽  
Sample Group ◽  
Eighth Grade Students ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Reasoning Skill

Abstract: Reflective thinking skills are thought to be an important factor affecting the success of problem solving both routine and non-routine science problems. This research aimed to determine the relationship between eighth-grade students’ reflective thinking skills toward problem-solving and their level of solving routine and non-routine science problems. Determining this relationship can form a basis for the decisions teachers make in courses and contribute to increasing teaching quality. A correlational and regressional research design was used in this study. A total of 408 eighth-grade students from four secondary schools in Kocaeli, Turkey constituted the sample group. The correlational results showed that, as the students’ reflective thinking towards problem solving scores increased, which were identified as questioning, reasoning and, evaluating, their level of solving routine and non-routine problems also increased. But multiple regressional results showed only the evaluation skill was a significant predictor in solving routine problems and only the reasoning skill was a significant predictor in solving non-routine problems. Therefore, students should also be equipped with reasoning skill such as examining the cause-and-effect relationships by investigating the reason behind the decisions made while solving a problem, to contribute to the solution of non-routine problems.

scholarly journals The Relationship between Reflective Thinking Tendencies and Social Problem Solving Abilities of Pre-Service Teachers

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (11) ◽  
pp. 21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sadık Yüksel Sivaci
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Positive Relationship ◽  
Reflective Thinking ◽  
Educational Status ◽  
Social Problem Solving ◽  
Problem Solving Skills ◽  
Screening Model ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Academic Year

The ability of reflecting thinking and problem solving are two qualities that are thought effective in education of qualitative teachers and regulations of their educational status. In this study, our aim is to examine the pre-service teachers' levels of reflective thinking and problem solving and to determine if there is a significant relationship between reflective thinking and problem solving. From this aspect, this study has the quality of relational screening model. The sample of this study includes 438 pre-service teachers studying at Kırşehir Ahi Evran University in 2015-2016 academic year. As a data collecting tool, "Reflective Thinking Scale (RTS)" and "Problem Solving Inventory (PSI)" have been used. In the study, it was seen that pre-service teachers had a moderate and above positive relationship between the reflective thinking tendencies and the scores they got from the subscales of the problem solving skills and the general scores they got from the scales. It was determined that there is a significant positive relationship between reflective thinking and problem solving. In general, it is concluded that the pre-service teachers' abilities of reflective thinking and problem solving are high.

scholarly journals Online and other ICT-based Assessment Tools for Problem-solving Skills

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (04) ◽  
pp. 56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Athanasios Drigas ◽  
Maria Karyotaki
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Cognitive Skills ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Assessment Tools ◽  
Collaborative Problem Solving ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Problem Solving Skills ◽  
Collaborative Problem ◽  
Group Members

Problem-solving skills assessment starts with the imperative that the hypothesized construct of skills, is theoretically sound. Secondly, assessment refers to identifying and recording inductive and deductive types of reasoning as well as divergent and convergent thinking skills. The aforementioned procedures should be measured, independent of specific learning domains or knowledge backgrounds. Future research should be oriented towards the development of a prototype set of tasks that would embed problem-solving skills in different content and context areas and that would act as a model for implementation in online large-scale assessments. Furthermore, the classroom provides an environment amenable to collaborative problem solving, in which capturing the progress of students’ both social and cognitive processes through identifying the exchange of implicit and explicit types of information, remains to be sufficiently addressed. Effective collaborative problem-solving assessment is related to well-defined, real-world problems as well as to the provision of respective scaffolds to group members for developing their cognitive and meta-cognitive skills. In other words, effective collaborative problem-solving assessment should bring about and measure group members’ cognitive and meta-cognitive skills, evolving from the social regulation of processes, such as goal setting, connecting information and patterns as well as testing hypotheses.

scholarly journals The predictive power to mathematical success of belief and reflective thinking for problem solvingProblem çözmeye yönelik inanç ve yansıtıcı düşünme becerisinin matematik başarısını yordama gücü

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 807 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mustafa Albayrak ◽  
Mertkan Şimşek ◽  
Nurullah Yazıcı
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Predictive Power ◽  
Reflective Thinking ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
English Summary ◽  
Critical Thinking Skills ◽  
Problem Solving Skills ◽  
Mathematical Success ◽  
Mathematical Skill ◽  
The Impact

It is known that variables such as attitudes, faith, self-efficacy, critical thinking skills, reflective thinking skills are variables used to explain the students’ mathematical success and the impact rates of these variables are not the same. In this study, students' predictive power towards mathematical achievements of faith and reflective thinking skills were investigated in terms of problem solving as corresponding to these variables. Relational search model was used in the research. The sample of the research is composed of 143 mathematics teacher candidates who are studying in the departmen of Elemantary Mathematics Teaching in a university. Regression analysis was done for predicting students’ mathematical achievement by sub dimensions of belief about problem solving which are mathematical skill, mathematical situation, understanding problem, importance of mathematics, problem solving skills and sub dimensions of reflective thinking ability which are inquiry, evaluation and heuristics. Research findings show that these variables are about 18 percent of the total variance in mathematical success. It is considered that associating the conceptual and operational knowledge during the education periods in order to increase student success of students can affect the student success.Extended English summary is in the end of Full Text PDF (TURKISH) file.ÖzetMatematiğe yönelik tutum, inanç, öz yeterlilik algısı, eleştirel düşünme becerisi, yansıtıcı düşünme becerisi gibi değişkenlerin öğrencilerin matematik başarılarını açıklamada kullanılan değişkenler olduğu ve bu değişkenlerin etki oranlarının aynı olmadığı bilinmektedir. Araştırmada bu değişkenlere karşılık gelecek şekilde problem çözme temalı olarak öğrencilerin matematiğe karşı inanç ve yansıtıcı düşünce becerilerinin matematiksel başarılarına olan yordama gücü incelenmiştir. Araştırmada ilişkisel tarama modeli kullanılmıştır. Araştırmanın örneklemini, bir üniversitenin İlköğretim Matematik Öğretmenliği bölümünde öğrenim görmekte olan 143 matematik öğretmen adayı oluşturmaktadır. Problem çözmeye ilişkin inancın alt boyutları olan matematiksel beceri, matematiğin yeri, problemi anlama, matematiğin önemi ve problem çözme becerisi ile yansıtıcı düşünme becerisinin alt boyutları olan sorgulama, değerlendirme ve nedenleme değişkenlerine göre öğrencilerin matematik başarısının yordanmasına yönelik regresyon analizi yapılmıştır. Araştırmada bu değişkenlerin birlikte matematik başarısındaki toplam varyansın yaklaşık %18’ini açıkladığı sonucu bulunmuştur. Öğrenci başarısının artırılması amacıyla öğrencilerin öğrenimleri süresince kavramsal ve işlemsel bilginin birbirine yakın bir şekilde ilişkilendirilmesinin öğrenci başarısını etkileyebileceği düşünülmektedir.

scholarly journals The Online Learning and Students’ Fear of COVID-19: Study in Malaysia and Pakistan

2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Farhat Munir ◽  
Aizza Anwar ◽  
Daisy Mui Hung Kee
Keyword(s):  
Online Learning ◽  
Problem Solving ◽  
Social Presence ◽  
Process Model ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Snowball Sampling ◽  
Online Data ◽  
Problem Solving Skills ◽  
Cognitive Problem ◽  
The Relationship

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced millions of students to stay indoors and adapt to the new normal, namely distance learning at home, placing online learning in the spotlight. However, students’ motivation for online learning and its effectiveness in skill development during the COVID-19 pandemic has not been widely studied. This study examined the relationship between students’ fear of COVID-19 and students’ social presence in online learning while investigating the parallel mediating role of student psychological motivation and cognitive problem-solving skills related to online learning. The participants were 472 university students in Malaysia and Pakistan. An online data collection technique using Google Forms was employed. Faculty members of the universities were asked to share the survey with their students. Moreover, using a snowball sampling technique, students were requested to share the survey with their friends. SPSS Statistics (Version 21)  was employed to do preliminary data analysis, AMOS (Version 21) software was used to conduct confirmatory factor analysis using a maximum likelihood estimation, and Hayes’ PROCESS model was used to examine proposed hypotheses. The results show that only cognitive problem solving mediates the relationship between fear of COVID-19 and students’ social presence in online learning in Malaysian samples. In Pakistan, cognitive problem solving and psychological motivation mediate the relationship between fear of COVID-19 and students’ social presence in online learning. The study found that developing cognitive problem-solving skills and providing psychological motivation could enhance their engagement with online learning.

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