Investigation of Middle School Students' Teamwork and Decision Making Inclinations

The aim of this research is to investigate the students' teamwork and decision making inclinations in terms of gender, grade level and academic success, as well as to determine the relationship between teamwork and decision-making inclinations. The sample of this research is composed of 522 5th-8th grade middle school students. The “Student Attitudes Towards Group Environments Scale” and the “Decision Making Scale” were used as data collection tools. Three-way MANCOVA, ANCOVA, simple linear regression and simple correlation analysis were used to analyze the data. Finally, according to decision-making inclinations, it was determined that female students were more positive than male, seventh-grade students were more positive than fifth-grade students, and students with higher GPAs were more positive than those with lower GPAs. In terms of students’ teamwork inclinations, it was determined that there is no significant difference in terms of gender, fifth and sixth-grade students were more positive than eighth-grade students, and students with a high average GPA were more positive than those with lower GPAs. On the other hand, there was a low positive relationship between students' teamwork and their decision making inclinations. In addition, it was determined that the students' teamwork inclinations significantly predicted their decision-making inclinations by 3%