Developing pupils' critical thinking by teaching Mathematics
This article presents a research project on the development of critical thinking of 6th graders in Caraş-Severin county using an educational program based on learning by discovery and problematisation. The first stage of the research consisting in diagnosing the of critical thinking level of deve...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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West University of Timisoara
2019-07-01
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| Series: | Revista de Știinţe Educaţiei |
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| Online Access: | https://rse.uvt.ro/pdf/2019/Nr1_update/9.pdf |
| Summary: | This article presents a research project on the development of critical thinking
of 6th graders in Caraş-Severin county using an educational program based on
learning by discovery and problematisation. The first stage of the research
consisting in diagnosing the of critical thinking level of development of 5th graders
in Caraş-Severin county using a critical thinking test based on the Watson-Glaser
model. We selected a representative lot of 542 pupils, taking into account the
results of this test, the geographic distribution, the urban-rural environment, the
teaching experience of the teaching staff teaching these pupils, then we sampled
these pupils forming the experimental lot and the control lot, close in terms of
critical thinking level. We elaborated, deployed and validated a training program
"Developing Critical Thinking of Pupils by Teaching Mathematics", a training
course offered by the Caraş-Severin House of the Teaching Staff, the teachers
participating in this course being those who taught the pupils in the experimental
lot. After the completion of the intervention, the pupils in the two lots were tested
again using the same type of tests, namely, Watson-Glaser, obtaining significant
differences in favour of the experimental lot. We wanted to see if these abilities
were stable over time and we applied a new test 3 months after the end of the
intervention, and the conclusion was that the change was long-term, but also that
the intervention created a series of abilities which pupils continue to use in order
to improve their performances, even if the intervention was over. The
interpretation of the results was done in SPSS using Mixed Bifactorial Variance
Analysis (ANOVA) with Time asthe Within Subjects factor and Group asthe
Between Subjects factor |
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| ISSN: | 1454-7678 2457-8673 |