scholarly journals Critical Thinking Ability and Performance in Argumentative Essays of the Education Major Students

2022 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 143-149
Author(s):  
Fengyi Ma ◽  
Yuan Li

The study was carried out to assess the relationship between students' critical thinking abilities and their success in writing an argumentative essay. The descriptive-correlation design was used in this research. The respondents in this survey were a total of 310 Education major students. This is 22.32 percent of the 1387 students enrolled in the Education program. The 50-item questionnaire was based on the Watson-Glaser Critical Thinking Appraisal from Pearson TalentLens to measure the student's study critical thinking abilities. The following conclusions were drawn: the students lack critical thinking ability; the students have difficulty in constructing argumentative essays; and the less critical the students are, the less performance they have in writing argumentative essays.

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 138-149
Author(s):  
Jerald C. Moneva ◽  
Rey G. Miralles ◽  
James Z. Rosell

Problem solving attitude is one of the most important aspect of the students in handling problems that they encountered. Meanwhile, critical thinking ability is also an important skill of the students in dealing and analyzing the problems and to it appropriately. The study used descriptive correlation design to determine the relationship between problem solving attitude and critical thinking ability of the students. The study has 240 respondents from the different strands (ABM, HUMSS, GAS, TVL and STEM) in certain senior high school: Mandaue City, Cebu, Philippines. The tool used in this study in getting the information and data collection is rating scale questionnaire. All the data are analyzed using weighted mean and chi-square to show the result. The result shows that the problem solving attitude is significantly associated to the critical thinking ability of the students. Students who have high level of problem solving attitude will become successful ones someday, because they don’t get affected in their problems instead, they solved it right away with their critical thinking. Students' critical thinking ability is very useful in solving and analyzing their problems.


Author(s):  
Sri Rejeki ◽  
Lilis Isharyanti

Kecerdasan intrapersonal merupakan bagian membentuk pola pikir kritis seseorang, namun berpikir kritis mereka belum maksimal karena tidak diketahui alas an peneyebabnya hal kebiasaan tersebut terus berjalan hingga kini, sehingga akhir berdampak menurunya motivasi ataupun prestasi belajar siswa. Tujuan artikel ini mengukur hubungan berpikir kritis dengan kecerdasan intrapersonal siswa. Metode penelitian termasuk penelitian deskriptif, pendekatan korelasional, Sampel penelitian berjumlah 30 orang, metode pengumpulan data yaitu angket dan tes, analisis data menggunakan analisa statistic. Hasil penelitian menemukan ada korelasi yang di temukan sebesar 0,974 termasuk dalam kategori sangat kuat. Jadi terdapat hubungan kecerdasan intrapersonal dengan kemampuan berpikir kritis siswa sangat kuat. Untuk mengetahui signifikan atau tidak penelitian ini maka nilai r perlu diuji lagi dengan nilai rtabel dimana nilai N = 30 dan taraf signifasi 5%. Nilai rtabel untuk N = 30 adalah 0,361. Hal ini berarti nilai rhitung lebih besar dari nilai rtabel atau 0,974 0,361, sehingga hasil penelitian ini signifikan. Jadi hubungan kedua variabel tersebut hampir sempurna karena mencapai 90,63% sementara 9.37% dipengaruhi eksternal.Intrapersonal intelligence is part of a person's critical mindset. Still, it is crucial that they are not maximized because it is unknown to the reason the habit has continued to run until now so that the end has a reduced impact Motivation or a student learning achievement. The purpose of this article measures the relationship critical thinking with intrapersonal intelligence of students. Research methods include descriptive research, correlational approaches, research samples amounting to 30 people, data collection methods i.e., poll and test, data analysis using statistic analysis. The results of the study found there was a correlation in the find of 0.974 included in powerful categories. So there is an intrapersonal intelligence relationship with the students ' critical thinking ability powerful. To know the sign or not this research, then the value of R needs to be tested again with the value of the r table where the value N = 30 and a signification level of 5%. The r table value for N = 30 is 0.361. This means that the calculated value is greater than the r table or 0.974 0.361 value, so the results of this study are significant. So the second relationship of such variables is almost perfect because it reaches 90.63% while 9.37% is affected externally.


2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 878
Author(s):  
Sajad Faramarzi ◽  
Atefeh Elekaei ◽  
Hossein Heidari Tabrizi

The present study was conducted in order to identify the relationship among autonomy, critical thinking ability, and lexical knowledge of Iranian EFL learners. 114 male and female learners learning English as a foreign language participated in the present study. The obtained data was analyzed by using Pearson correlation coefficient and One-Way ANOVA. The results of the present study indicated that there was a significant positive relationship between autonomy and lexical knowledge of learners. Moreover, the results of One-Way ANOVA revealed that learners with high critical thinking ability level were the most autonomous learners. Furthermore, learners with high critical thinking ability had high lexical knowledge.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony Lantian ◽  
Virginie Bagneux ◽  
Sylvain Delouvée ◽  
Nicolas Gauvrit

Critical thinking is of paramount importance in our society. People regularly assume that critical thinking is a way to reduce conspiracy belief, although the relationship between critical thinking and conspiracy belief has never been tested. We conducted two studies (Study 1, N = 86; Study 2, N = 252), in which we found that critical thinking ability—measured by an open-ended test emphasizing several areas of critical thinking ability in the context of argumentation—is negatively associated with belief in conspiracy theories. Additionally, we did not find a significant relationship between self-reported (subjective) critical thinking ability and conspiracy belief. Our results support the idea that conspiracy believers have less developed critical thinking ability and stimulate discussion about the possibility of reducing conspiracy beliefs via the development of critical thinking.


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