The Active Learning Model Of Class 7 Students And Their Impacts On Critical Thinking Tendencies Teacher Opinions

The purpose of the study is to determine the effects of active learning model applied in the 7th grade Turkish Language course on students' critical thinking tendencies. The study group of the research consists of 59 students who were in the seventh grade during the academic year of 2016-2017 in Erzurum Province. Of these students, 29 students constituted the experimental group and 30 students constituted the control group. Experimental method was used in the study. In the quantitative part of the study, experimental design with pre-test post-test control group, which is one of the experimental research models. The California Mental Motivation Scale, developed to measure the students' critical thinking tendencies by Giancarlo, Blohm and Urdan (2004) adapted to Turkish by Özdemir (2006) was applied as pre-test and post- test in the experimental and control groups.