THE EFFECTS OF LIFELONG LEARNING TENDENCIES ON CRITICAL THINKING AND COMPUTATIONAL THINKING SKILLS

Abstract

It is aimed to examine the effects of computational thinking skills and critical thinking skills of students enrolled in the pedagogical formation certificate program, which is considered within the scope of lifelong learning in education faculties, on lifelong learning skills in this study. Scanning model principles were taken into account in order to achieve the aim. Structural regression analysis was used to test the relationship between variables in the study. The data were collected from 240 students who are continuing the pedagogical formation certificate program, which is based on lifelong learning. The Critical Thinking Scale (CT), Computational Thinking Self-Efficacy Scale (CoT) and The Lifelong Learning Tendency Scale (LLL) were used to collect the data. According to the results, CoT has a direct and significant effect on CT at the rate of 84%, and the CoT directly explains LLL at a rate of 59%.