A preliminary investigation into critical thinking of urban Xi'an high school students

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Abstract

This paper reports the development of critical thinking of urban high school students in the Chinese city of Xi an. It presents the assessment of the studentsº two components of critical thinking: dispositions towards critical thinking and critical thinking skills, using the California Critical Thinking Disposition Inventory and the California Critical Thinking Skills Test. Results show that the studentsº dispositions toward critical thinking are at an average level while their critical thinking skills are very low. This research also shows that there is no significant difference between students from science classes and arts classes in their critical thinking dispositions while science students have a higher level of critical thinking skills. Students from advanced classes have a higher level of the two components of critical thinking than their counterparts from general classes. There are no differences between male students and female students in both components.

Keywords

high school students, critical thinking, critical thinking dispositions, critical thinking skills

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