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The effects of problem based learning on cognitive flexibility, self regulation skills and students’ achievements
(Bahçeşehir Üniversitesi Fen Bilimleri Enstitüsü, 2011-07) Yücel, Özge; Korahaca, Adem
The purpose of this study is to specify the effects of cognitive flexibility and self regulation skills on students' achievements in web mediated problem based programming language learning towards gender and class groups. Self regulation skills towards web based programming language education is discussed under three dimentions; learning skills, learning strategies and self efficacy. Level of cognitive flexibility is reviewed by comparison of time and percentage of success. Causal-comparative research model is used in this study where five different class groups are compared in. First, the flexiblity test has been done on a sample of seventy-five students who are receiving education in a private university. As the next step, the self regulation skills scale has been done by the same students. For the last step, a web based problem was given to this students and their success is calculates as the the grades that they get from each step. In the statistical analysis of the data, t-tests, ANOVA, MANOVA and correlation coefficient was used. The statistical analyses were done on SPSS 17.0. The significance of the data was tested at the significance level of .05. The statistical analysis showed that, there is no significant difference between self regulation skills and cognitive flexibility towards gender and class groups. Also there is not a significant relationship between web based self regulation skills. When the corelation between level of cognitive flexibility and students' achievements is taken under consideration it is seen that there is a positive linear relationship between them. It can be said that students who have higher cognitive flexibility level also have advanced problem solving skills.