مستويات التفكير النّقدي لدى طلاب الماستر بالجامعات الجزائرية

The study aimed mainly at knowing the levels of critical thinking skills among master's students in Algerian universities, by studying the averages they obtain in a critical thinking scale. Watson Glaser Modified and Abbreviated Critical Thinking Test was used on a sample of 233 male and female students from five universities in Algeria: M'sila, Batna, Biskra, Algiers (Bouzareah), and Chlef. The results revealed that (46.8%) of the sample students had a high performance on the critical thinking test, that the performance of (30.0%) of the sample students was average, and (23.2%) of the sample students got a low rating. It was clear from the result of the statistical analysis of the data that there are no statistically significant differences in critical thinking skills due to the following variables: university headquarters, gender, academic major and age among master’s students in Algerian universities. There is also no interaction between the gender variable and the following variables: university headquarters, specialization Academic and age in the impact on the critical thinking averages of master students in Algerian universities. Perhaps the absence of statistically significant differences in this analysis is due to the homogeneity of the samples in terms of the level of critical thinking of master students in Algerian universities, where they study the same curriculum in terms of content, and using the same pedagogical methods, given that these universities are governmental.