摘要：This study discusses the development of historical time concept and the skills
depending on such concept in the elementary school’s students attending to grades 4 to 8 (aged
between 10-14). The study is a descriptive field study, where quantitative and qualitative methods
are used. The investigation was carried out in the Elementary Schools of Cacabey, Vali Mithat
Saylam and Ahi Evran located in the inner city of Kırehir, which represent, respectively, the
socio-economically upper, middle and lower settings. In the quantitative part of the study, the
achievement test regarding the subject were applied to each branch of students from grades 4-8 of
the three schools, each being randomly selected (421 in total), and the collected data were
analyzed statistically, using the t-test, ANOVA and Correlation techniques in the SPSS program.
In the qualitative part, ten students from each of these branches (149 in total) were interviewed
and data were collected employing the semi-structured interview technique. Interpreting the data
obtained from the investigation, one can conclude that a number of variables such as socioeconomic
environment, gender, grade level (age), mathematics and language (Turkish) success
have an effect on the acquirement of historical time concept by the student. Regarding the
quantitative findings, it was found remarkable that there was such a significant difference between
grades 4, 5, 6, and grades 7 and 8 that they could constitute two distinct groups.
关键词：history teaching, historical time concept, social studies teaching, chronological skills,
time perception.
