Scientific reasoning skills of high school students’ relationship gender and their academic success

This study is aimed to examine the relationships between scientific reasoning skills of high school students and academic success that science (Physics, Chemistry and Biology), language (Turkish Language and Literature with Foreign Language), social (History and Geograpy) and ability groups (Painting, Music and Physical Education). For this purpose a test was executed to 408 first grade students from different seven high schools in Sakarya. Data were collected by a Classroom Test of Scientific Reasoning created by Lawson. Success grades in first semester of students were used to determine the GPA of students. According to reasons of the research, a relation between scientific reasoning skills of high school students with their GPA and gender was found.