Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
PAMUKKALE UNIVERSITESI EGITIM FAKULTESI DERGISI-PAMUKKALE UNIVERSITY JOURNAL OF EDUCATION, sa.27, ss.185-197, 2010 (ESCI, TRDizin)
The purpose of the study is to determine the 5th grade primary students' levels of geometric thinking and examine the students' levels of geometric thinking in terms of gender, computer usage, attending preschool education and parents' education level. As a measuring tool, test for determination levels of geometric thinking which was developed by the researchers used. The sample consists of 1644 5th grade students at 32 primary schools in Izmir. Stratified random sampling was used. It is found that 47.9% of students were at the level 0; that is, they could not be appointed to any level, 29.3% were at the level 1, 16.7% were at the level 2, and 6.1% were at the level 3. In other words, almost half of the students could not be appointed to any level. Also the students' levels of geometric thinking differ in terms of gender, attending preschool education, computer usage and parents' education level.