Document Type : Research Paper

Author

• Mohammad Asgari

assessment &measurment Dep., Psychology & Education Facelty, Allameh Tabataba'i University, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

Abstract
critical thinking has been the main goal of higher education institutions in the 21 century. The purpose of the study was to study development process of critical thinking of psychology students during four years of study. The research method was a survey type in a cross-sectional study. The statistical population and sample were all students entering psychology from Allameh Tabataba’i University from 1398 to 1401, whose number was 87. Watson-Glasser (1937) critical thinking test was used to measure students' critical thinking. This test has five sub-tests of inference, hypothesis identification, inference, interpretation and evaluation of logical arguments .Multiple regression analysis and diagnostic analysis were used for data analysis. The results showed that the students' critical thinking and its components are low and weak. The general trend of the development of critical thinking in students during the four years of study is upward, although this trend was slightly downward in the third year. The components of hypothesis identification, inference, interpretation and evaluation of logical arguments had a significant increasing trend, but the inference component did not have a significant trend. In addition, the components of interpretation and interpretation, and the identification of assumptions have more effect than other components in creating distinction in the four investigated inputs, and the evaluation of arguments has the least effect. Therefore, it can be concluded that although the critical thinking of students is evaluated as weak in general, university education has been effective on the growth process of critical thinking of psychology students .

Keywords

• critical thinking test
• critical thinking
• inference
• identification of assumptions
• interpretation

Main Subjects

• یادگیری