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- Title
Okul Öncesi Dönemdeki Çocukların Bilişsel Stillerinin Bazı Değişkenler Açısından İncelenmesi.
- Authors
SEÇER, Zarife; SARI, Hakan; ÇELİKÖZ, Nadir; ÜRE, Ömer
- Abstract
The Research Problem: According to Dinçer (1993), cognitive style reflects the individuals' attitudes towards the problems. The individuals' cognitive style can be either impulsive or reflective one. Some individuals aim that they can reach the target taking the result at the minimum level but some aim that they should spend much time and they try to reach the exact result. Therefore, the previous group can be called as impulsive and the later group can be called as reflective. The researchers (Fink and McCown, 1993) the impulsive individuals try to reach the result very quickly without thinking all the process but the reflective individuals control all the systems in the process and make process easy so they complete the process in the true way. These lead to having not success in impulsive individuals and affecting their learning process in negative way. It is important that to know about whether children have impulsive or reflective and benefit from the conclusions of the researches which will light curriculum developers and the practitioners to be able to develop a curriculum, selection of the teaching methods and techniques, and evaluating the curriculum (Çakan, 2000; 2002). Therefore, from the preschool period Turkish children should be identified and known whether they are reflective or impulsive, and should be examined for what kind of relationships between their personality feasibilities. The Aim of Research: The aim of this research is to examine reflective and impulsive cognitive styles of pre-school children and whether it changes or not according to their ages, sexualities, number of siblings, education levels of their parents and school kinds that they are being educated in. Method: Survey method was used in the research. With this method, the researchers aim identifying how the situation is in the past or in the present (Karasar, 1984). In this research reflective and impulsive cognitive style of pre-school children were examined from the point of personal parameters. The sample consists of children, who are being educated in the classes of the primary schools and the independent preschools which are responsible for Konya Local Education Authority. In addition to this, the sampling is made up of 4-7 aged total 1276 children who are chosen by the random sampling method. In spite of Kagan's Matching Familiar Figure Test has being implied generally in many researches, another test was used in this research which was improved by Wright (1971) Kansas Reflection-Impulsivity Scale for Preschoolers (KRISP)-Form A. In this research, KRISP-Form A was used which was developed by Wright (1971) to define the number of errors that children make and also to define their latency. KRISP-Form A test, consisting of five match-to-sample practice items followed by ten test items, was administered to the children. In content validity evaluation, opinions of experts have been taken into considerations well in KRISP-Form A Studies of validity, have been completed by rating validity, test retest and validity study of half split test. Findings: The findings can be ordered as the followings. 1. The findings related to the sub-problem: Although there are not significant differences between the latency of children enrolled in preschools on KRISP-Form A there are significant differences on error numbers made by the children. While children's age increase, a decrease is observed on numbers of their errors and this decrease composes a significant difference on all ages group other than 6-7 ages groups. According to this result, it can be declared that the higher children's age becomes, the more reflective they are. 2. The findings related to sub-problem: KRISP-Form A latency for the preschool boys and girls indicate similarities but the girls make less errors from the boys in terms of the number of the errors. It can be asserted that the girls are more reflective than the boys according to the result.…
- Subjects
COGNITION in children; PRESCHOOL children; IMPULSE (Psychology); CRITICAL thinking in children; PRESCHOOL curriculum
- Publication
Selcuk University Social Sciences Institute Journal, 2008, Vol 21, p407
- ISSN
1302-1796
- Publication type
Article