Evaluation of neuroscientific knowledge, thinking styles and teaching style preference of elementary school teachers in Amol city

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the neuroscientific knowledge, thinking styles and preferred teaching style of teachers of primary schools in Amol city in the years 2018-2019. The statistical population of this study consisted of all elementary school teachers in Amol city in the academic year of 2018-2019. 98 individuals were selected using available sampling method. After selecting the samples, teachers were asked to answer the teachers' Neurological Knowledge Scale (Herculano-Houzel, 2002), Sternberg Thinking Styles Questionnaire (Sternberg & Wagner, 1992), and Teaching Style Preference Questionnaire (Moosapoor, 1998). The findings showed that teachers tend to have a significantly more active teaching style (p < 0.0001, t = 9.01). Also, the results of one sample showed that all teachers surveyed were in the middle class in terms of neurological knowledge (p < 0.005, t = -14.73) according to the average scores obtained from the questionnaires. and having more of a Legislative thinking style (p < 0.0001, t = 13.43) and a Liberal thinking style (p < 0.0001, t = 12.19), and less than of the Conservative thinking style (p < 0.001, t = -3.40). and they used the executive thinking style (p < 0.0001, t = 2.88) and the judicial thinking style (p < 0.0001, t = 9.41) more than average.