Evaluation of the skills of 5th grade primary school students' high-order thinking levels in reading

It is possible to suppose that the highest level among the reading skills is the one when students become able to deal with the texts to such high order thinking levels as synthesis, analyzing, interpreting and evaluating as long as the ultimate purpose of reading education is so. Keeping this in mind, we determined the questioning sentence of the study as "At What level are the Primary school 5th grade students' high-order thinking skills (evaluation, synthesis, analysis, interpretation) in reading?" The study was designed to be qualitative. Observation and interview methods were used to gather all the data. Six students were interviewed and surveyed. This lasted through 5 weeks. According to the findings of the surveys, it has been stated that, most of the students' performanses referring to; 1. the evulation skills are high, 2. the synthesis skills are mean, 3. the anallysis skills are mean, 4. the interpretation skills are low. (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.