The Level of Critical Thinking of a Jordanian Sample of Blind Students and Its Relationship with Some Variables

Autor/in	Al-Shenikat, Feryal Abdel-Hadi
Titel	The Level of Critical Thinking of a Jordanian Sample of Blind Students and Its Relationship with Some Variables
Quelle	In: Educational Research and Reviews, 17 (2022) 2, S.53-67 (15 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1990-3839
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Blindness; Students with Disabilities; Critical Thinking; Thinking Skills; Gender Differences; Secondary School Students; Visual Impairments; Student Characteristics; Symptoms (Individual Disorders); Special Schools; Test Validity; Test Reliability; Instructional Program Divisions; Jordan; California Critical Thinking Skills Test (College); Cornell Critical Thinking Test + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Blindheit; Student; Students; Disability; Disabilities; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Behinderung; Kritisches Denken; Denkfähigkeit; Geschlechterkonflikt; Sekundarschüler; Visual handicap; Sehbehinderung; Psychiatrische Symptomatik; Special school; Sonderschule; Testvalidität; Testreliabilität
Abstract	The present study aimed to find out the level of critical thinking skills of a Jordanian sample of blind students and its relationship with some variables, namely the gender and class level variable. To achieve the objectives of the study, the researcher developed the California Critical Thinking Scale in line with the characteristics of the blind, with the help of several teachers of blind students with experience and expertise. First, the indications of validity and reliability of the scale were extracted by applying the tool to an exploratory sample of (30) male and female blind students. After that, the scale was applied to the final sample from all the governorates of Jordan, which amounted to 66 students from grades tenth, first secondary, second secondary. Then, the data were collected and analyzed. The results indicated that the arithmetic average of the blind students' responses to the California Critical Thinking Test was less than the educationally acceptable standard of (80%); for the five critical thinking skills that were included in the scale, the arithmetic averages of all skills were below the educationally acceptable level, and the highest mean was for the induction skill, then the evaluation skill, inference skill, analysis skill and finally the deduction skill. It is indicated that there are no differences attributed to the gender and class level variables. The study recommended the necessity of providing blind students with critical thinking skills, and providing training courses for blind teachers to activate the critical thinking skills of blind students. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01