scholarly journals INVESTIGATING SECONDARY STUDENTS’ CRITICAL THINKING: A CASE OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 1278-1287
Author(s):  
Muhammad Zafar Iqbal ◽  
Jahan Ara Shams ◽  
Tariq Javed ◽  
Uzma Rao ◽  
Nighat Ara
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Rural School ◽  
Female Students ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
School Students ◽  
Science Group ◽  
Gilgit Baltistan

Purpose of the Study: The purpose of this research study was to measure and compare critical thinking among secondary school students in a district of Gilgit-Baltistan. Methodology: Quantitative research approach was applied to study critical thinking. A sample of 400 students was selected through a convenient sampling technique to collect the data. Critical thinking was measured by applying an adapted tool (Sarigoz, 2012). Descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analyze the data. Main Findings: Findings of the study revealed that female students, rural school students, and science group students showed slightly higher critical thinking than male, urban, and arts group students. The results were consistent with earlier studies having higher critical thinking among female and science group students. However, the results were inconsistent with the earlier research studies having slightly higher critical thinking among rural school students than urban school students. The study revealed that there is a discrepancy in aligning critical thinking with teaching and learning activities in secondary school classrooms. Application of this study: The findings of the study help understand the level of male and female students' critical thinking at the secondary level. It will surely assist the teachers in designing their classroom activities and modifications in teaching methodologies for gender perspective. Novelty/Originality of this study: The study is original as not a single research study investigated the critical thinking of secondary school students in the region of district Ghizar in Gilgit-Baltistan.

scholarly journals RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SECONDARY STUDENTS’ CRITICAL THINKING AND ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT: A CASE OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 1166-1174
Author(s):  
Muhammad Zafar Iqbal ◽  
Muhammad Jamal Khan ◽  
Tariq Javed ◽  
Uzma Rao ◽  
Jahan Ara Shams
Keyword(s):  
Academic Achievement ◽  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Public Schools ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Positive Relationship ◽  
Research Study ◽  
School Students ◽  
Gilgit Baltistan ◽  
The Relationship

Purpose of the Study: The purpose of this research study was to study the relationship between critical thinking (CT) and academic achievement among secondary school students in a district of Gilgit-Baltistan. Methodology: Correlation design was applied to study the relationship between critical thinking and academic achievement. A sample of 400 students was selected through a convenient sampling technique to collect the data. Critical thinking was measured by applying an adapted tool (Sarigoz, 2012) and students’ scores in annual examinations were taken as academic achievement (York, Gibson & Rankin, 2015). Descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analyze the data. Main Findings: Findings of the study revealed that female students, rural school students, and science group students showed slightly higher critical thinking than male, urban, and arts group students. A markedly low positive relationship was found between critical thinking and academic achievement. The results were consistent with earlier studies having a positive relationship between these variables. There were also low and markedly low relationships found between constructs of critical thinking and academic achievement. Some results of this study were inconsistent with the earlier research based on the context of the students. The study revealed that there is a discrepancy in aligning critical thinking with academic achievement. Application of this study: The findings of the study help understand the relationship between critical thinking and academic achievement at the secondary level. It will surely assist the teachers in designing their classroom activities and modifications in teaching methodologies. It will boost the teachers to enhance the critical thinking of secondary school students. Novelty/Originality of this study: The study is original as not a single research study determined the relationship between critical thinking and academic achievement of secondary school students in the region of district Ghizar in Gilgit-Baltistan.

scholarly journals Effectiveness of Participation in a Blog for Extra-curricular activities for Developing Students’ Critical thinking skills: A Case of Secondary School Students: فاعلية المشاركة في مدونة إلكترونية للأنشطة غير الصفية في تنمية مهارات التفكير الناقد لدى طالبات الصف الثالث الثانوي بمدينة جدة

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (16) ◽  
Author(s):  
Wafa Abed M Al-Harbi, Sanaa Saleh Askool
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Secondary Students ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Critical Thinking Skills ◽  
Control Group ◽  
School Students ◽  
Extra Curricular Activities ◽  
Experimental Group

This study aims to identify the effectiveness of participation in a blog for extra-curricular activities for developing the critical thinking skills of third secondary students in Jeddah. The sample consisted of (100) students from several schools in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia randomly selected and divided into (50) experimental group, (50) control group. The study used the Semi-experimental method and conducted the Watson and Glaser test for critical thinking. The results of the study showed that there were statistically significant differences (0.05) among the experimental group (individual and cooperative) For the officer in the brother Bar dimensional test critical thinking skills for the benefit of the experimental group because of its effect for the use of a typical blog (single, cooperative).

scholarly journals Life Skill Integrated Science-PBL Module to Improve Critical Thinking Skills of Secondary School Students

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (7) ◽  
pp. 3085-3096
Author(s):  
Nurdiyah Lestari ◽  
K. Ivo Basri ◽  
St. Muthmainnah Yusuf ◽  
S. Suciati ◽  
Mohammad Masykuri
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Critical Thinking Skills ◽  
Life Skill ◽  
School Students ◽  
Integrated Science

scholarly journals Vocational Interest of Secondary School Students with Reference to their Gender

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Shraddha U ◽  
Khandwala
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Female Students ◽  
T Test ◽  
Male Students ◽  
School Students ◽  
Vocational Interest ◽  
Interest Inventory

This study is an attempt to know the vocational interest of the secondary school students. The sample consisted of 120 students of class 9th. That is 60 male and 60 female. Vocational interest was measured by “Vocational Interest Inventory” (Jansari). The data was analyzed by using ‘t’ test. The results reveal that male students are more interested in enterprising fields of vocation than female students.

scholarly journals Un estudio sobre el uso de CAS como caja negra para el aprendizaje de factorizaciones A study on the use of CAS as a black box for the learning of factorization

2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Abigail González Maldonado ◽  
Mario Sánchez Aguilar
Keyword(s):  
High School Students ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Black Box ◽  
Mathematics Students ◽  
Mathematical Software ◽  
Lower Secondary School ◽  
School Students

ResumenEn este artículo se reporta una investigación en la cual se intenta averiguar si los estudiantes pueden adquirir habilidades necesarias para realizar factorizaciones algebraicas, utilizando software matemático. Para contestar la interrogante de la investigación, se aplicaron actividades a estudiantes de nivel secundaria y bachillerato, donde debían calcular factorizaciones algebraicas con ayuda del software GeoGebra, posteriormente se les pedía que buscaran patrones en los resultados que arrojaba el software para poder generar una factorización general. Después de analizar los resultados de la experimentación se encontró́ que los estudiantes son capaces de producir factorizaciones algebraicas generales, aunque presentan ciertas dificultades. Este trabajo cierra haciendo una discusión de las implicaciones que pueden tener los resultados encontrados.AbstractThis paper describes a research study focused on finding out if mathematics students can acquire skills necessary to perform algebraic factorizations by using mathematical software. To answer the research question, a group of lower secondary school students and high school students were involved in mathematical activities where there should calculate algebraic factorizations using the software GeoGebra, then they were asked to look for patterns in the results generated by the software in order to produce a general factorization. After analyzing the results of the experimentation, it was found that students are able to produce general algebraic factorizations, but some of them have some difficulties in doing so. This work is closed by a discussion of the implications of the research results.

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