scholarly journals The Relationship between Critical Thinking, Frequency, Informal Fallacy and Evidence in Argumentative Writing

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 303-320
Keyword(s):  
High School Students ◽  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Significant Negative Correlation ◽  
Argumentative Writing ◽  
School Students ◽  
Frequency Of Use ◽  
Informal Fallacies ◽  
Informal Fallacy ◽  
The Relationship

The present study was an investigation of the relationship between the EFL learners’ critical thinking, their frequency, and types of informal fallacy and evidence in argumentative writing. Few studies have been conducted to investigate these issues. To this end, 356-second grade female senior state high school students from four schools in Zanjan were selected through multistage cluster random sampling (MCRS) method and based on Cambridge placement test (2010); 130 students proved to be upper-intermediate and participated in this correlational study. The main data collection stage took place for one month. Then, the informal fallacies based on Johnson's definitions and four types of evidence categorized in Hoeke and Hustinkx were identified and counted within language learners' argumentative writings. The evaluation of the arguments was also conducted based on Walton, Reed, and Macagno. Based on the results achieved from the first research question, there was a significant negative correlation observed between the participants' critical thinking and the frequency of use of informal fallacies in their written argumentation. Based on the results achieved from the second research question, there was a potential and significant correlation between the participants' critical thinking and the frequency of use of informal fallacies. Keywords: Argumentative Writing, Critical Thinking, Evidence, Informal Fallacy.

scholarly journals The relationship between tolerance for uncertainty and creativity among high school students with a critical style of thinking

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 5-18
Author(s):  
Alla K. Belousova ◽  
Alena V. Samarskaya ◽  
Ekaterina V. Kryazhkova
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Diagnostic Methods ◽  
Thinking Style ◽  
School Students ◽  
Tolerance Relation ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Development Of Tolerance

The paper presents the results of a study of tolerance relation to uncertainty and creativity among senior schoolchildren with a critical style of thinking. The authors use valid diagnostic methods: A. Belousovas thinking style questionnaire, S. Badners uncertainty tolerance questionnaire, and P. Torrances test. The sample consists of 90 senior schoolchildren, both boys and girls. As a result of the study, the groups of schoolchildren with a dominant critical and practical style of thinking have been identified. The authors show that there are significant differences in the development of relationships between uncertainty and creativity tolerance scales, between uncertainty tolerance and critical thinking style, creativity and critical thinking style. The differences have been obtained in the development of tolerance for uncertainty, creativity in relation to the practical style of thinking.

scholarly journals Virtual World Construction and The Relationship to Creativity in Art Education / Construction de mondes virtuels et lien avec la créativité en éducation artistique

2019 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-100
Author(s):  
Hsiao-Cheng (Sandrine) Han
Keyword(s):  
High School Students ◽  
Virtual Worlds ◽  
Virtual World ◽  
Research Question ◽  
School Students ◽  
Creation Process ◽  
Main Research ◽  
Virtual Commons ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract: This paper presents findings from a participatory observational case study with a perspective on creativity. In this research, high school students from Vancouver, Canada, worked in the virtual world of VCER (Virtual Commons for Education and Research), an Open Simulator, to create an ecosystem. The main research question of this study was: How can the virtual world creation process foster student creativity? The sub-questions were 1. How do students express their creativity through the virtual world creation process? And 2. What can teachers do to further student creativity?Keywords: Virtual worlds; Creativity; Technology. Résumé : Cet article présente les résultats d’une étude d’observation participative axée sur la créativité. Des étudiants du secondaire, basés à Vancouver au Canada, ont exploité le monde virtuel du VCER (Virtual Commons for Education and Research) pour créer un écosystème. Cette étude posait essentiellement la question suivante : en quoi la création de mondes virtuels favorise-t-elle la créativité chez les étudiants ? Les questions subséquentes étaient les suivantes : 1. Comment les étudiants expriment-ils leur créativité par la construction de mondes virtuels ? et 2. Que peuvent faire les enseignants pour promouvoir la créativité des étudiants ?Mots-clés : mondes virtuels, créativité, technologie.

Description Of Relationship Between Students Interests And Attitudes In Physical Subject In Indonesia

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 202
Author(s):  
Astalini Astalini ◽  
Darmaji Darmaji ◽  
Dwi Agus Kurniawan ◽  
Sumaryanti Sumaryanti ◽  
Rahmat Perdana ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Descriptive Statistics ◽  
Student Interest ◽  
School Students ◽  
Analysis Techniques ◽  
High School Physics ◽  
Research Procedure ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Good Research

The purpose of this study is to find out how attitudes and interests of students and analyze the relationship between attitudes and student interest in high school physics subjects in Jambi Province. This type of research is quantitative which uses survey research design as a research procedure. This study involved 463 high school students in Jambi Province. The instrument used was a questionnaire with data analysis techniques namely descriptive statistics and inferential statistics. The results of the dominant student attitude indicators discussed in this paper are attitude indicators towards good research in physics with a percentage of 58.5% with a total of 271 students. The results of indicators of dominant interest are indicators of learning attention with categories good a percentage of 74.3% with total 344 students. The results of the analysis of the relationship between attitudes and interests of students towards high school physics subjects in Jambi Province showed r value 0.725 and positive. Therefore it is said that the attitudes and interests of high school students in Indonesia in physics subjects are high.

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