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An assessment of critical thinking in the Middle East: Evaluating the effectiveness of special courses interventions
- Source :
- PLoS ONE, Vol 16, Iss 12, p e0262088 (2021), PLoS ONE, Vol 16, Iss 12 (2021), PLoS ONE
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2021.
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Abstract
- Critical thinking is a requisite skill for college success, employability, and conducive active civic participation. Empirical studies have noted to the low achievement of Arab students on critical thinking assessments. Insufficient endeavors have attempted to propose effective interventions enhancing critical thinking abilities among Arab students. The current analysis provides a preliminary overview of a special course designed to improve critical thinking skills among Arab college students. Results indicated a great improvement in all areas of critical thinking including explanation of information, identification of strategies, implementing solutions, and formulating logical inferences. Students’ scores on a critical thinking assessment increased from sufficient to good as a result of participating in the program. The gains are consistent after controlling for gender, major, class seniority, and nationality. Notwithstanding these promising results, this paper is limited in several respects including the choice of critical thinking assessments represented by two questions, the highly contextualized setting making it difficult to be replicated, and the convenient sampling strategy used to recruit participants. This set of limitations, however, does not discourage proactive attempts like designing special courses to enhance students’ critical thinking acquisition in the Middle East.
- Subjects :
- Male
Arabic People
Social Sciences
Reflection
Graduates
Thinking
Learning and Memory
Sociology
ComputingMilieux_COMPUTERSANDEDUCATION
Psychology
Research assessment
Qualitative Research
Schools
Multidisciplinary
Physics
Classical Mechanics
Focus Groups
Professions
Research Design
Physical Sciences
Educational Status
Medicine
Female
Curriculum
Research Article
Universities
Colleges
Science
Research and Analysis Methods
Education
Human Learning
Middle East
Young Adult
Learning
Humans
Students
Qatar
Cognitive Psychology
Biology and Life Sciences
Reproducibility of Results
Achievement
Teaching Methods
Instructors
People and Places
Cognitive Science
Population Groupings
Educational Measurement
Neuroscience
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 19326203
- Volume :
- 16
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- PLOS ONE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....642af2de5a2d9064ea995eb6b2ea3806