روند تحول تفكر انتقادي در دانشجويان دانشگاه فردوسي مشهد

Critical thinking skills of students in the baccalaureate program in Ferdowsi University of Mashhad

The purpose of the present research was to evaluate studentsʹ critical thinking at Ferdowsi University of Mashhad. Watson-Glaser Critical Thinking Appraisal (WGCTA) was administered with on 144 undergraduate students in order to measure their critical thinking skills. WGCTA contains 80 items across five domains of critical thinking: Drawing Inferences, Recognizing Assumptions, Argument Evaluation, Deductive Reasoning, and Logical Interpretation. The results of a series of independent /-tests showed no difference across the two genders or across various academic desciplines; however, seniors scored significantly higher on critical thinking than freshmen.