ERIC ED105406: An Aspect of Critical Thinking pdf

ERIC ED105406: An Aspect of Critical Thinking

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This study seeks to illuminate those characteristics of students which predict their performance in using evidence to test a hypothesis. The research is conceived as part of a larger investigative strategy for understanding the relationships among characteristics of students, characteristics of social studies thinking tasks, and characteristics of instructional variables. Stepwise multiple regression using five variables–verbal ability, age, socioeconomic status, educational expectation, and sex–is employed to predict students’ use of evidence. Subjects are 304 students in grades seven, nine, and eleven. Results reconfirm the importance of verbal ability as a predictor in verbally loaded tasks (predicting 25 percent of variance), but surprisingly neither age nor socioeconomic status are found as significant predictors. Implications are drawn for curriculum decision making. Suggestions for further research are enumerated. (Author

• Creator/s: ERIC
• Date: 4/1/1975
• Year: 1975
• Book Topics/Themes: ERIC Archive, Critical Reading, Critical Thinking, Multiple Regression Analysis, Predictive Measurement, Reading Ability, Reading Research, Reading Skills, Secondary Education, Student Characteristics, Task Performance, Verbal Ability

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