How Much Difference Can We Make? Assessing the Change in Students’ Critical Thinking in a Private Political Science Program in Egypt

Khodary, Yasmin

doi:10.1080/10790195.2020.1712271

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“…There is a plethora of critical thinking conceptualizations [2,9]. Many refer to critical thinking as transferrable, cross-disciplinary, and universal set of dispositions and skills [5]. This collection of skills pertains to the ability of identifying relevant information, problem solving strategies, logical reasoning, and using evidence to construct and defend arguments [6].…”

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An assessment of critical thinking in the Middle East: Evaluating the effectiveness of special courses interventions

Yousef

2021

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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.

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“…Critical thinking improves students' academic achievement, career outcomes, and civic engagement [2,3]. The study of critical thinking in Arab countries suffers from several conceptual and methodological problems warranting systematic investigation [4,5].…”

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An assessment of critical thinking in the Middle East: Evaluating the effectiveness of special courses interventions

Yousef

2021

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How Much Difference Can We Make? Assessing the Change in Students’ Critical Thinking in a Private Political Science Program in Egypt

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An assessment of critical thinking in the Middle East: Evaluating the effectiveness of special courses interventions

An assessment of critical thinking in the Middle East: Evaluating the effectiveness of special courses interventions

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