Investigation Of Logical Thinking Skills And Attitudes Scale Towards Chemistry Of Prospective Teachers

This research has been conducted on 322 prospective teachers of science, mathematics and primary education program at Amasya Faculty of Education in 2004-2005 academic years. This study is a kind of descriptive study done by survey model. The data of the research have been gathered with logical thinking skills test towards chemistry and attitudes scale towards chemistry course. In this study, it has been done comparison between groups in terms of prospective teachers’ sex, departments the types of secondary education from which they have graduation and courses in which they are successful. The results showed that there isn’t a signifi- cant difference among prospective teachers’ logical thinking skills, but there is a significant difference among their attitudes. It has been made certain suggestion based on findings obtained and conclusion drawn from the present research.