The investigation of 4th elementary school students' critically reading and problem solving skills in terms of several variables: Sample of Uşak

The aim of this research was to examine the critical reading skills of the students in the 4th grade of Uşak primary school and the problem solving skills according to the variables such as age, gender, socioeconomic level of the family, education level of the family, computer and tablet usage frequency of the students and problem solving skills and to determine the relationship between skills. Data from the study were collected from 466 students from 12 primary schools. Personal Information Form, Critical Reading Skill Scale and Problem Solving Inventory for Children were applied in order to collect personal information from students during the collection of data. In the analysis of collected data, analysis methods such as arithmetic mean, standard deviation, Anova test, Tukey test, correlation and regression were used. According to the result of the research, students have high level of critical reading ability and problem solving ability is medium level. A moderately significant relationship was found between the level of critical reading skills of the 4th grade students and the level of problem solving skills.