Mahmoud Kamali Zarch; Hossein Zare; Somayeh Alavi Langeroudi
Volume 1, Issue 2 , June 2013, , Pages 14-31
Abstract
Aims: This study aimed at investigating the effect of critical thinking instruction on epistemological beliefs of B.A students of Yazd university in 2011-12 academic year. Method: The study was conducted by experimental method. The statistical population included 11052 B.A students of Yazd ...
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Aims: This study aimed at investigating the effect of critical thinking instruction on epistemological beliefs of B.A students of Yazd university in 2011-12 academic year. Method: The study was conducted by experimental method. The statistical population included 11052 B.A students of Yazd University. The sampling was conducted using random method of stage cluster sampling. The students were divided into the experimental and control groups randomly. The research instruments were Schomer's epistemological beliefs questionnaire (1992) and critical thinking training protocol. in six session longs two hours based on Paul(1984), Fisher(2005) and Mayers (1986) the treatment took six sessions of two hours long. Descriptive statistical indexes and analysis of covariance test were applied to test the research hypotheses. Results and conclusion: The results showed that the instruction of critical thinking enhanced epistemological beliefs of the experimental group more than the control group. Also in subscale levels of epistemological beliefs questionnaire, the statistical results showed that the instruction increased epistemological beliefs of students in: innate learning ability, the simplicity of epistemology, the determinism of epistemology and rapid learning. However, the results did not show a significance difference between males and females.
