The relationship between math achievement motivation and reflective thinking skills towards problem solving of the 8th grade students

The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between the 8th grade students' math achievement motivation and their reflective thinking skills towards problem solving.The research was conducted across 2 private and 2 public primary schools and on 461 students in those schools. The data were gathered by the "Achievement Motivation Scale" developed by Umay (2002,a) and the "Reflective Thinking Skill Towards Problem Solving Scale" developed by Aşkar and Kızılkaya (2009). In this study was used quantitative research methods. Arithmetic Mean, Standard Deviation, Frequency, Percentage, and the test of significance of the difference between the percentages were employed to analyze the data of the research.The research result show that the mean of the achievement motive score is (X=22,78; Sd=4,13). It was seen that students' achievement motivation scale scores mean is under the midpoint of the achievement motivation scale for mathematics. The mean of the reflective thinking skill scale towards problem solving scale scores is (X=33,84; Sd=11,70) in this research. It was seen that students' reflective thinking skills towards problem solving scale scores mean is under the midpoint of it. In addition achievement motives scores positively and significantly correlated with the Reflective Thinking Skill Scale toward Problem Solving Scores, r=.63, n=461, p<.01.