Investigation of The Reasoning Styles of The University Students

Year 2017, Volume: 1 Issue: 1, 37 - 61, 01.07.2017

Volkan Duran Bayram Özer

Abstract

Humans mostly don’t perceive
reality as it is in some cases. The educational background, learning readiness,
motivations, selective memory, cultural background, environmental, biological
factors may affect the perception and interpretation of the data from
surroundings in this sense. Creative thinking can be regarded among these
factors for the interpretation of the data and converting them into ideas in
this respect. Creativity can be defined as an ability to change, combine or use
ideas or products in different situations, contexts to produce original outcomes
with respect to the context, culture or history of creative individual that are
located. Creative thinking skill has dimensions such as developing detailed
ideas and enrichment, finding unique solutions to the problems, and having a
holistic view.

The research is qualitative
research based on case study design. The data collection technique was focus
group interview and the data collection tool is a semi-structured interview
forms consisting from pictures about the warriors. In the first part of the research
participants were briefly informed about the aim of the research. Inthe second
part the questionnaire was delivered students.  The questionnaire consisting of pictures
regarding those three warriors in which participants choose one picture among
different representations for each warriors. Hence they chose the warrior image
fitting their own previous knowledge and image of them. The population was
selected by simple random sampling. The population of this research consists of
157 students from 4’th grade from Psychological Counselling And Guidance
Department. A qualitative descriptive analysis approach was used to analyse the
data obtained from this research. In the analysis of data, answers are classified
based on the dimensions of perceptions as concrete or abstract. Finally, the
pictures they chose from the last part of the sheets and their descriptions are
categorized under similar themes. The results of the analysis of pictures are
compared and analysed in terms of the answers from survey questions at the end. 

Keywords

Descriptions, Culture, Perception

Investigation of The Reasoning Styles of The University Students

Abstract

Humans mostly don’t perceive
reality as it is in some cases. The educational background, learning readiness,
motivations, selective memory, cultural background, environmental, biological
factors may affect the perception and interpretation of the data from
surroundings in this sense. Creative thinking can be regarded among these
factors for the interpretation of the data and converting them into ideas in
this respect. Creativity can be defined as an ability to change, combine or use
ideas or products in different situations, contexts to produce original outcomes
with respect to the context, culture or history of creative individual that are
located. Creative thinking skill has dimensions such as developing detailed
ideas and enrichment, finding unique solutions to the problems, and having a
holistic view.

The
research is qualitative research based on case study design. The data
collection technique was focus group interview and the data collection tool is
a semi-structured interview forms consisting from pictures about the warriors.
In the first part of the research participants were briefly informed about the
aim of the research. Inthe second part the questionnaire was delivered students.
 The questionnaire consisting of pictures
regarding those three warriors in which participants choose one picture among
different representations for each warriors. Hence they chose the warrior image
fitting their own previous knowledge and image of them. The population was
selected by simple random sampling. The population of this research consists of
157 students from 4’th grade from Psychological Counselling And Guidance
Department. A qualitative descriptive analysis approach was used to analyse the
data obtained from this research. In the analysis of data, answers are classified
based on the dimensions of perceptions as concrete or abstract. Finally, the
pictures they chose from the last part of the sheets and their descriptions are
categorized under similar themes. The results of the analysis of pictures are
compared and analysed in terms of the answers from survey questions at the end. 

Keywords

Descriptions, Culture, Perception, Reasoning Styles

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