Investigation the thinking and decision making styles of the student that participate special ability examamination

Özel yetenek sınavlarına katılan öğrencilerin karar verme ve düşünme stillerinin incelenmesi

Abstract

The aim of this study is to define the thinking and decision making styles of the student that participate special ability examination. The group of this search is composed of totally 700 students (453 male students and 247 female students) that participate the special ability examination of Atatürk and Kafkas University Physical Education and Sport Department. "Experiential and Rational Thinking Style Scale" which was developed by Epstein and others $(1996)^1$ and translated into Turkish by Buluş $(2000)^2$ and also "Decision Making Style Scale" which was developed by Scott and Burce $(1995)^3$ and translated into Turkish by Taşdelen $(2002)^4$ was executed to the participant students. In determining and comment the data, the meaningfulness was set at P< 0,05 by using t test and Multiple Linear Regression. SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Sciences) was used for analyzing the data and finding the calculated worth. As a result of this study, it wasn’t found that there was a difference in significance between sexualities and branches in respect of the thinking and decision making styles of the student that participate special ability examination. Besides, when we looked at relation’s levels, between the thinking styles of the students and students’ subcategories of decision making style of the students which were the rational decision making, the intuitive decision making, the dependent decision making, the avoidant decision making and the spontaneous decision making were occurred to be a significance relation.

Özet

Bu çalışmanın amacı; özel yetenek sınavlarına katılan öğrencilerin karar verme ve düşünme stillerini belirleyebilmek.Çalışma grubunu; Atatürk üniversitesi ve Kafkas üniversitesi beden eğitimi ve spor yüksekokulu özel yetenek sınavlarına katılan 453‘ü erkek 247‘si kız toplam 700 öğrenci oluşturmaktadır. Epstein ve Ark.$(1996)^1$ tarafından geliştirilen Türkçeye uyarlanması Buluş$(2000)^2$ tarafından yapılan rasyonel-yaşantısal düşünme stilleri ölçeği ve Scott ve Burce $(1995)^3$ tarafından geliştirilen Taşdelen (2002)4 tarafından Türkçeye uyarlanan karar verme stilleri ölçeği araştırmaya katılan öğrencilere uygulanmıştır. Verilerin çözüm ve yorumlamasında t Testi, Çoklu Doğrusal Regresyon Analizi (Multiple Linear Regression) kullanılarak anlamlılık P