Examination of Turkish Language Teachers’ Self-Efficacy Perceptions of Teaching Thinking Skills in Terms of Various Variables

Zeynep Cin Şeker

doi:10.32591/coas.ojer.0502.13303s

Abstract

The aim of this study was to examine Turkish Language teachers’ self-efficacy perceptions of teaching thinking skills in terms of the variables of age, professional experience, educational status, and taking course on thinking skills. The screening model was used in the study. The current pandemic process was taken into account and the convenience sampling method was used while determining the study group. Turkish Language teachers forming the study group consisted of 109 females and 68 males. “Teachers’ Self-efficacy towards teaching thinking scale” was used as the data collection tool. The data of the study were analyzed using the statistical package program. In conclusion, no significant difference was found between the Turkish Language teachers’ self-efficacy perceptions of teaching thinking skills and gender. It was concluded that Turkish Language teachers’ self-efficacy perceptions of teaching thinking skills differed according to professional experience. It was concluded that there was no significant difference between Turkish Language teachers’ self-efficacy perceptions of teaching thinking skills and their educational status. It was concluded that there was a significant difference between Turkish Language teachers’ self-efficacy perceptions of teaching thinking skills and taking course on thinking skills.

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While thinking is an important skill that sets humans apart from other living beings and creatures, it is usually an act that we do daily without being aware of what we do
Turkish Language teachers forming the study group consisted of 109 females and 68 males
It was concluded that there was no significant difference between Turkish Language teachers’ self-efficacy perceptions of teaching thinking skills and their educational status

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While thinking is an important skill that sets humans apart from other living beings and creatures, it is usually an act that we do daily without being aware of what we do. When we encounter a problem in daily life, we have to propose a solution to that problem or make a choice among existing solutions, when we read or listen to a text, we have to reach new meanings from what the author/speaker presents to us, arrange and assess our existing knowledge, reaching at a conclusion In this context, thinking is an action that is at the center of our lives. As a result of this examination, people display one of understanding, deciding, planning, problem solving, making judgment or taking action behaviors In this sense, thinking refers to both a process and a product that must be achieved at the end of

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