Escudero Gimeno, La (2022) Creating a measure for Critical Thinking. Bachelor thesis, Psychology.
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Abstract
The role of critical thinking is increasingly relevant in education. Research shows that critical thinking can be domain-dependent or general. This creates a disagreement about the way it can be taught. The American Psychological Association and the University of Groningen consider critical thinking an important learning outcome for undergraduate psychology students. The goal of this study was to create and validate a measure for psychological critical thinking. We created a measure for psychological critical thinking and compared participants’ scores on this measure with another, validated measure – the Psychological Critical Thinking Exam. A within-subject correlational study (N=78)was conducted. We considered the difference between the aspects determined by us as part of psychological critical thinking and those determined by Lawson (1999) as a possible explanation for our results. Results showed that there is no statistically significant relationship between the scores from the validated PCTE and the created GPCTT. The findings suggest that future research is needed for a validated domain-specific measure and on the quality of the teaching methods used for critical thinking. Further practical and theoretical implications are discussed.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Supervisor name: | Fratescu, M. and Heesink, J.A.M. |
| Degree programme: | Psychology |
| Differentiation route: | Cognitive Psychology and Psychophysiology (CPP) [Bachelor Psychology] |
| Date Deposited: | 25 Feb 2022 10:18 |
| Last Modified: | 25 Feb 2022 10:18 |
| URI: | http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/235 |
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