The Effectiveness of the Transformational Learning Model on The Critical Thinking Tendency and on the Meta-Cognitive Awareness of the Students in the 6th Grade Science Course

Abstract

The main purpose of this study is to determine the effect of the effectiveness of the transformationallearning model on the critical thinking tendency and on the meta-cognitive awareness of the students in the 6thgrade science course. The study group of this research was selected as a Secondary School, which is a publicschool in the district of Güngören in Istanbul. The California Critical Thinking Disposition Inventory (CCTDI),the Cognitive Awareness Scale, the semi-structured interview form and student diaries are the data collectiontools of the research using the dominant-less dominant mixed method. In the study, parametric tests were used toanalyze data for which the distribution was normal; descriptive and content analysis methods were used in theanalysis of the data obtained in the semi-structured interview form, and citations were also made through thedocument review. As a result of research It has been seen that the activities of transformational learning modelhave given students the habit of conducting research from different sources.