Study Group
The study group was formed of randomly chosen 40 students, who take the subject of “Problem Solving in
Mathematics”, which is one of the third year subjects, in the Department of Mathematics Teaching in Primary
Education in the Faculty of Education at a public University in Samsun, in 2013-2014 academic year. The number of
students participating in the application at the beginning of the term is 23. The number of students attending the practice
at the end of the term is 17.
At the stage of applying the problems and scale, all of the students taking part in the practice were ensured to answer the
scales, but the students who imperfectly answered the problems and the scale were excluded from the assessment while
the statistical analyses were being performed. Therefore, the number of samples differs from one another.