Students oriented geometry self- efficacy beliefs, attitudes and geometry investigation of relationship between levels of geometric thinking

The purpose of this study middle school 8.geometry class students self-efficacy,geometry attitude and geometric thinking levels to examine the relationship between. These variables are also personal variables; gender, parents ' educational level and family income to see the relationship between status variables. The study group of this research in the spring semester of the academic year 2015-2016, In the district of Incirliova, Aydın Province, the Ministry of national education at the school, three middle 8. a total of 142 students studying in class consisted of. Van hiele geometric thinking levels of students in the study in order to determine the Geometry Test (Usiskin, 1982) was used. Geometry eighth-grade students to determine attitudes towards Cloud and others (2002) developed by pre-seven positive and seven negative items consists of the Geometry attitude scale was used. Geometric students self-competencies in order to measure gunha (2006) primary II. level of students geometric self-developed competencies in order to measure the geometry-oriented self-efficacy scale was used. According to the results of the research, students levels of geometric thinking has been quite low than it should be. geometry students self-competencies, attitudes, geometric thinking and geometric variable on the test scores in terms of gender no significant differences were observed. According to research, the mother and father who graduated from college were higher than other students, it was seen that geometric thinking levels of the students. KEY WORDS: Attitude, Geometry, Self-Proficiency, Geometric Thinking,Secondary School Students.