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: 2
- Number of studies: 70
- Number of students: 8,233
- Number of effects: 90
- Weighted mean effect size: 0.79
- Robustness index: 2
Meta-Analyses
| Journal Title | Author | Article Name | Year Published | Variable | Number of Studies | Number of Students | Number of Effects | Effect Size | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thinking Skills and Creativity | Fong, Kim, Davis, Hoang, & Kim | A meta-analysis on critical thinking and community college student achievement | 2017 | Critical thinking | 23 | 8,233 | 23 | 0.49 | |
| Psycho-Educational Research Reviews | Orhan | The Relationship between Critical Thinking and Academic Achievement: A Meta-Analysis Study. | 2022 | Critical thinking | 47 | NA | 67 | 0.93 | |
| TOTAL/AVERAGE | 70 | 8,233 | 90 | 0.71 | |||||