Investigating the relationship between 7th and 8th grade primary school students' formal operational thinking skills and science and technology subject success

The aim of this study is to find out whether are there any significant difference between students? Technology and Science Subject success and formal operational thinking skills, who are teaching at primary school. In this respect, this result find out according to gender, variety of school, grade, styles in study lesson. Descriptive model and qualititative (statistical) techniques was used in this study. The sample consist of 491 students from primary education at Canakkale City. For this aim, science cognitive development test (SCDT) and group assessment of logical thinking logical thinking group test (GALT) was applied that was by developed Roadrangka, Yeany ve Padilla (1982) and it was translated into Turkish by Berberoglu ve Paykoç (1989). Data was analyzed by several statistic techniques such as t-test, one-way ANOVA test and Scheffe and SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Sciences) is used for those analyzes. In this study, students? Technology and Science Subject success and formal operational thinking skills are determined according to difference between science cognitive development test and group assessment of logical thinking. Major findings of the research can be summarized as follows: no significant difference was found according to gender variable. Moreover, there are significant difference between SCDT and GALT according to kind of school, grade, and styles in study lesson, social-economical background, GPA, social-cultural variables. In addition to, private schools student? scores have been showed that higher score than governance school students according to grade variables.