مرکز منطقه ای اطلاع رساني علوم و فناوري - Investigating problem-solving skills of pre-school teaching programme students and social work students

Abstract :

This research was planned and conducted to investigate the problem-solving skills of students working with special groups. By areas of expertise, in likely to their professional life, working in cooperation and coordination with social work students of the University of Ankara and preschool teaching programme students of the University of Anadolu were included in this study. The Problem Solving Scale was used to develop by Heppener and Petersen (1982). The status of taking problem solving skill course, department and the class of students were selected as an independent variables and their frequencies were shown in the general information part. The significance (chi-square test) was used to evaluate the courses which supporting the problem solving skills of students by department. By the way, two-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) was used to determine the impact of the status of taking courses about supporting the problem solving skills and the department on the problem-solving skills. On the other hand the t-test and Kruskal Wallis-H which is one of the non-parametric test was used to determine the problem solving skills by department and class. The meaningful differences were found between taking a problem solving skill course and department which they attend (p 0.05). Besides, it was found that the skills related to the planned approach (p 0.01) and problem solving (p 0.01) vary depending on the department where thet attend in. Furthermore, the students, attending pre-school teacher, was found an inadequate problem solving skills. Considering the class variable, trust the problemsolving skills, planned approach and personal control which is one of the dimensions of the problem-solving skills, has been shown to have significant effect on the class. According to this, it was established that as the class level increases, the problem-solving skills were found to increase (p 0.01). It was seen that as the degree of class increased, the mean scores fell. 67,6% of students stated that they committed some topics relat