ÜNİVERSİTE ÖĞRENCİLERİNİN EPİSTEMOLOJİK İNANÇLARI İLE PROBLEM ÇÖZME BECERİLERİ ARASINDAKİ İLİŞKİLER

Öz

Bu araştırmanın temel amacı, Eğitim Fakültesi ve Fen Edebiyat Fakültesi öğrencilerinin epistemolojik inançları ile problem çözme becerileri arasında bir ilişki olup olmadığını belirlemek ve bunun fakülte, bölüm ve cinsiyetin ana etkisi ile fakülte ve bölümün cinsiyetle olan interaksiyon etkisi açısından durumunu ortaya koymaktır. Toplam 208 üniversite öğrencisi üzerinde yürütülmüş olan bu araştırmada, öğrencilerin epistemolojik inançları ve problem çözme becerileri üzerinde fakülte, bölüm ve cinsiyetin ana etkisi ile fakülte ve bölümün cinsiyetle olan interaksiyon etkisini saptamak amacıyla varyans analizi ve epistemolojik inançların problem çözme becerileri üzerine etkisini belirlemek amacıyla, regresyon analizi tekniği uygulanarak değerlendirmelere gidilmiştir. Gerekli analizler, SPSS 12.0 ve Jmp 5.0.1 paket programları kullanılarak yapılmıştır. Araştırmanın ortaya koyduğu sonuçlara göre, epistemolojik inançlar problem çözme becerileri üzerinde anlamlı farklılaşmalara neden olmuştur.

Anahtar Kelimeler

• Epistemolojik inançlar,Problem Çözme Becerisi

THE RELATIONSHIPS AMONG EPISTEMOLOGICAL BELIEFS AND PROBLEM SOLVING SKILLS OF UNIVERSITY STUDENTS

Abstract

The main purpose of this research was to determine the relationship s between epistemological beliefs and the problem solving skills of university students and to make clear the faculty, department and gender main effect and the interaction of gender on faculty and department. Subjects were 208 university students. At the research, variance analysis were used to find the faculty, department and gender main effect and the interaction of gender on faculty and department on students' epistemological beliefs and their problem solving skills; and were applied the technique of regression analysis to decide the effects of students' epistemological beliefs on their problem solving skills. Necessary analyses were made by using SPSS 12.0 and Jmp 5.0.1 package programmers. According to the results, significant differences were found on the problem solving skills in terms of epistemological beliefs

Keywords

• Epistemological Beliefs,Problem Solving Skills

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