Reflective thinking skills of elementary school students to solve problems, social studies and academic achievements

The aim of this research is to examine the relationship between the reflective thinking skills of primary school students for problem solving and the academic achievement scores obtained from the social studies class. Single scanning model was used in this research. The sample of the study consists of 305 students, 156 girls and 149 boys, who are studying in 5 different secondary schools in Afyonkarahisar province. Reflective thinking skills of students based on problem solving were examined by academic achievement in social studies class and some variables. Variables; Gender, number of siblings, place of growing up. reading habit, parental occupation, socio-economic status of the family, and parental education. As a data tool, "Reflective Thinking Scale for Problem Solving" developed by Kızılkaya and Aşkar (2009) was used. In the analysis of the data, frequency, percentage, standard deviation and average were used as descriptive statistics. In the analysis of the data between two independent groups, t-test; ANOVA test (one way) was used in the analysis of data between over two independent groups. There was a significant difference according to gender, book reading habits and school report grades, but no significant difference was found in other variables.