INVESTIGATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEM SOLVING SKILLS OF PRESCHOOL AGE CHILDREN
INVESTIGATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEM SOLVING SKILLS OF PRESCHOOL AGE CHILDREN

Summary/Abstract: The study was conducted to determine problem-solving skills of preschoolage children on environment as well as factors affecting this skill. For this purpose,quantitative and qualitative research methods were used together in the study and theresearch was designed in the screening model. This study is a descriptive type researchsince it questions the present status. The study group consisted of 168 childrenstudying a preschool in the Province of Malatya. The random-sampling method wasused to select the participating children. The Introductory Information Form and theScale for Problem Solving in Environmental Education (SPSEE) developed by Ulutaş andSağlam (2016) were used for research data collection. A semi-structured interview formdeveloped by the researcher was used to perform the interviews with parents. As aresult of the SPSEE analysis, 15 children with the lowest scores among the participatingchildren were identified and interviews were performed with their parents in order toobtain in-depth information in this regard. Content analysis was used to analyzequalitative data, and one-way ANOVA was used for quantitative data analysis. As aresult of the study, the results of both analyses were found to overlap.

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