SUMMARY
In this research, it is aimed to compare the problem-solving skills of students who play sports and non-sports by identifying the problem-solving skills of high school students. In total, 200 students were sampled in this study. 100 of them do not play sports at all and 100 of them playsports in one sports branch in at least one of four different high schools in Afyonkarahisar. In the selection of the students, stratified sampling method was used in order to represent the students of every class. As data collection form, which was developed by Heppner and Petersen (1982) and whose validity and reliability studies were carried out by Sahin N.H., Sahin N. and Heppner (1993) and which included 32 items were used. For the data analysis; descriptive statistics, one-way ANOVA, repeated measures ANOVA and pearson correlation coefficients were employed. As a result of the research, it was determined that general problem solving skills of the students were moderate. While it was determined that the problem solving skills of the students who did sports were higher than those who did not do sports (p <0.05), it was found that the students who are doing sports are higher than those who do not sports in hasty, evaluative, safe and planned approach. However, the overall problem solving skills of the individual sports students were found to be higher than those of the team sports students (p<0,01). In addition, the students' problem-solving skills differ significantly from the classroom and sports branch group (p<0,05). The results of this research show that it positively affects problem-solving skills and thus there is a need to steer students to play sports and support them in accordance with students skills. ÖzetBu arastirmada, lise ögrencilerinin problem çözme becerilerini belirleyerek, spor yapan ve yapmayan ögrencilerin problem çözme becerilerinin karsilastirilmasi amaçlanmistir. Arastirmanin örneklem grubunu Afyonkarahisar il merkezindeki dört lisede ögrenim gören ve 100’ü spor yapmayan, 100’ü de en az bir spor dalinda faaliyet gösteren ögrenciler olmak üzere toplam 200 lise ögrencisi olusturmaktadir. Ögrencilerin seçiminde her siniftan ögrencinin temsil edilmesi bakimindan tabakali örnekleme yöntemi kullanilmistir. Veri toplama yöntemi olarak, Heppner ve Peterson (1982) tarafindan gelistirilen ve Sahin N.H., Sahin N. ve Heppner (1993) tarafindan geçerlik ve güvenirlik çalismalari gerçeklestirilen ve 32 maddeyi içeren Problem Çözme Envanteri kullanilmistir. Verilerin analizinde; tanimlayici istatistik, tek yönlü varyans analizi, tekrarli ölçümlerde varyans analizi ve pearson korelasyon katsayisi kullanilmistir. Arastirma sonucunda, ögrencilerin genel problem çözme becerilerinin orta düzeyde oldugu saptanmistir. Spor yapan ögrencilerde problem çözme becerilerinin spor yapmayanlara göre daha yüksek oldugu saptanirken (p<0.05) spor yapan ögrencilerin aceleci, degerlendirici, güvenli ve planli yaklasimda spor yapmayanlara göre daha yüksek oldugu tespit edilmistir. Bununla birlikte, bireysel spor yapan ögrencilerin genel problem çözme becerileri takim sporu yapan ögrencilere göre daha yüksek bulunmustur (p<0,01). Ayrica, ögrencilerin problem çözme becerileri egitim gördügü sinif ve spor bransi grubuna göre anlamli farklilik göstermektedir (p<0,05). Bu arastirma sonuçlarinin ilgili kisi, kurum ve kurulus tarafindan önemle dikkate alinarak ögrencilerin yetenek ve istekleri dogrultusunda spora yönlendirilmeleri ve desteklenmeleri önerilmektedir.