روانشناسی یادگیری
sfandiar sepahvand; manijeh shehni; siros allipour birgani; naser behroozy
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The purpose of this study was testing and comparing a model of causal relationships of family communication patterns (conversation and conformity), metacognition and critical thinking disposition, mediated by epistemic beliefs of male and female students in various high school grades in Ahvaz. The sample ...
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The purpose of this study was testing and comparing a model of causal relationships of family communication patterns (conversation and conformity), metacognition and critical thinking disposition, mediated by epistemic beliefs of male and female students in various high school grades in Ahvaz. The sample consisted of 808 high school students from Ahvaz who were selected by multi-stage random sampling method. The five questionnaires that have been used for collecting data were two subscales of Revised Version of Family Communication Patterns (RFCP), Metacognition Awareness Inventory, (MAI), Epistememic Beliefs Inventory (EBI) and Critical Thinking Disposition Inventory (CTD). Fitness indices of the proposed model were examined through structural equation modeling (SEM) method, using SPSS-21 and AMOS-21 softwares. The relationships of conversation, metacognition, and epistemic beliefs with critical thinking disposition were positive and significant, but the relationship of conformity with critical thinking disposition was significant and negative. The model fit indices showed that the model fitted the data. The indirect paths were also tested using the bootstrap procedure of Preacher and Hayes macro program for mediation. The results indicated that all of the indirect hypotheses have been confirmed. Also, the multi-group analysis method was used to compare the models of various high school grade levels (3rd grade of the first part of high school and 3rd grade of the second part of high school). Comparing The results of both groups showed that in the two high school grade levels three paths were significantly different.
hamideh pakmehr; hossein karshki
Volume 10, Issue 34 , January 2015, , Pages 112-126
Abstract
Considering the importance of critical thinking disposition and its’ the factors affecting, the present study was aimed to assess and explain the impact of students’ epistemological perspectives critical thinking disposition. This research method was causal-comparative. The statistic ...
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Considering the importance of critical thinking disposition and its’ the factors affecting, the present study was aimed to assess and explain the impact of students’ epistemological perspectives critical thinking disposition. This research method was causal-comparative. The statistic population consisted of all humanities students in Bafg PNU (460). 146 students were selected through stratified and sample size formula. They completed Ricketts’ critical thinking disposition (2003) and Schommer’ epistemological belief (1998) questionnaire’s. The findings showed that (1): There was significant difference between the two groups of students with complex and raw epistemological belief’s to critical thinking disposition .2- Most students were complex epistemological beliefs. 3. The students’ critical thinking disposition was not desirable. According to the results, change on the raw beliefs into complex beliefs, can be used to strengthen critical thinking and advanced the higher education goals.
