- Disiplinlerarası Eğitim Araştırmaları Dergisi
- Vol: 1 Issue: 1
- Investigation of The Reasoning Styles of The University Students
Investigation of The Reasoning Styles of The University Students
Authors : Volkan DURAN, Bayram ÖZER
Pages : 37-61
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Publication Date : 2017-07-01
Article Type : Research
Abstract :Humans mostly don’t perceive reality as it is in some cases. The educational background, learning readiness, motivations, selective memory, cultural background, environmental, biological factors may affect the perception and interpretation of the data from surroundings in this sense. Creative thinking can be regarded among these factors for the interpretation of the data and converting them into ideas in this respect. Creativity can be defined as an ability to change, combine or use ideas or products in different situations, contexts to produce original outcomes with respect to the context, culture or history of creative individual that are located. Creative thinking skill has dimensions such as developing detailed ideas and enrichment, finding unique solutions to the problems, and having a holistic view. The research is qualitative research based on case study design. The data collection technique was focus group interview and the data collection tool is a semi-structured interview forms consisting from pictures about the warriors. In the first part of the research participants were briefly informed about the aim of the research. Inthe second part the questionnaire was delivered students. The questionnaire consisting of pictures regarding those three warriors in which participants choose one picture among different representations for each warriors. Hence they chose the warrior image fitting their own previous knowledge and image of them. The population was selected by simple random sampling. The population of this research consists of 157 students from 4’th grade from Psychological Counselling And Guidance Department. A qualitative descriptive analysis approach was used to analyse the data obtained from this research. In the analysis of data, answers are classified based on the dimensions of perceptions as concrete or abstract. Finally, the pictures they chose from the last part of the sheets and their descriptions are categorized under similar themes. The results of the analysis of pictures are compared and analysed in terms of the answers from survey questions at the end.Keywords : Descriptions, Culture, Perception, Reasoning Styles