Ortaokul Öğrencilerinin Eleştirel Okuma Becerilerinin Çeşitli Değişkenlere Göre İncelenmesi

Critical reading has become a necessity nowadays. Especially, students reach the information easily from sources such as television, cinema, newspaper, magazines, books in technology era that we have ; they also expose to bombardment of information intensively in the world of unlimited and uncontrollable. In this point, it is important that student is able to distinguish which information is necessary, correct, useful; which information is partizan, away from science, useless; to examine what he/she read, to critic , to adopt after intellectualising by references of scientific resources. To be able to make this distinction, critical readind skills must be done. The purpose of the study is to investigate the level of critical reading skills of secondary school students. The population of the study is the secondary school students that receive education in Ministry of National Education affiliated schools in central Kars during 2012-2013 education year. Study sample consists of 434 randomly selected students among this population. Relational survey method is used for the study and “critical reading scale” developed by Unal is applied as the data collection instrument (Unal, 2005: 67). Reliability analysis of the scale for internal consistency provided a Cronbach’s Alpha coefficient of 0.81. For further statistical analysis, Student’s t test, correlation and factor analysis methods are used. The outcomes of our study demonstrated that in terms of critical reading levels, statistically significant differences exist among gender groups, number of books read categories and education level of the mother. On the other hand, no difference was observed for different grades or education level of the father.