Critical thinking
Overview
- Influence: Critical thinking
- Domain: Student
- Sub-Domain: Prior knowledge and background
- Potential to Accelerate Student Achievement: Potential to considerably accelerate
- Influence Definition: A set of cognitive skills—including analysis, inference, evaluation, interpretation, deductive reasoning, and inductive reasoning—that collectively enable a thinker to reasonably decide who and what to believe.
Evidence
- Number of meta-analyses: 3
- Number of studies: 94
- Number of students: 8,233
- Number of effects: 114
- Weighted mean effect size: 0.84
- Robustness index: 3
Meta-Analyses
| Journal Title | Author | First Author's Country | Article Name | Year Published | Variable | Number of Studies | Number of Students | Number of Effects | Effect Size |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Psycho-Educational Research Reviews | Orhan | Turkey | The Relationship between Critical Thinking and Academic Achievement: A Meta-Analysis Study. | 2022 | Critical thinking | 47 | 0 | 67 | 0.93 |
| Journal of Human Sciences | Çömek, Sariçayir, & Erdogan | Turkey | Effectiveness of the argumentation method: A meta-analysis. | 2015 | Argumentation | 24 | 0 | 24 | 1.00 |
| Thinking Skills and Creativity | Fong, Kim, Davis, Hoang, & Kim | USA | A meta-analysis on critical thinking and community college student achievement | 2017 | Critical thinking | 23 | 8,233 | 23 | 0.49 |
| TOTAL/AVERAGE | 94 | 8,233 | 114 | 0.81 | |||||