Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Türk Akademik Yayınlar Dergisi (TAY Journal), cilt.6, sa.2, ss.429-461, 2022 (Hakemli Dergi)
In the current study, it is aimed to examine middle school students' computational thinking, problem
solving skills and their attitudes towards research inquiry of the information technologies course, which
is taught with the method of constructivist approach. The study was carried out in accordance with the
pre-posttest experimental design. 14 girls and 8 boys in a middle school 5th grade were included to the
study. The data was collected in Kırşehir in the second semester of 2018-2019. Within the scope of the
study, "Problem Solving Inventory", "Computational Thinking Skill Scale" and "Attitude Scale Towards
Research-Inquiry” was used at the beginning and end of the application. As a result of the study, it was
observed that there was a significant difference in the post-test scores between the "avoidance" subdimension of the problem solving skills of middle school students and the total score obtained from the
problem solving skill scale. In addition, the significant difference obtained between the total score the
students got from the inquiry-oriented attitude scale and the sub-dimensions of curiosity, value. Finally,
avoidance is in the direction of the posttest score.