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Makale Özeti:
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The aim of this study is to determine logical thinking and cognitive development levels of
pre-service science teachers. The sample of this survey study consists of 241 pre-service
science teachers attending the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th grade of the Science Teaching Program,
at the Faculty of Education of Mehmet Akif Ersoy University, Turkey, selected through the
proportional stratified sampling method. As for data collection, Group Assessment of
Logical Thinking Test (GALT) was used, which includes 21 items and was developed by
Roadrangka, Yeany and Padilla (1982 Cited in: Aksu, Berberoğlu, Martin & Paykoç, 1990)
and adapted into Turkish by Aksu et al. (1990). Cronbach’s Alpha reliability coefficient of the
tool is calculated as .64 for this study. In analysis of the data, descriptive statistics, t-test and
ANOVA test were used. According to the results of the study, it was determined that 38.17%
of pre-service science teachers are in concrete operations stage, 61.41% of them are in
transitional stage and 0.42% of them are in formal operations stage; and that in general, they
are in transitional stage with an average of 9.25 points. Besides, it was determined that
logical thinking levels of pre-service science teachers do not vary by gender; in contrast, they
statistically differ according to grade level and type of graduated high school.
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