Maghsod Aminkhandaghi; mahmood Saiedi rezvani; Marzie movahhedi; Hamide Pakmehr; Hadi Abasi
Abstract
This study aimed to evaluate of realizing the cognitive goals students’ in high school and pre-university religion and life curriculum. This research is R&D and evaluative. The population consisted of students in all school districts in Tehran province (academic year 2010-2011) that were selected ...
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This study aimed to evaluate of realizing the cognitive goals students’ in high school and pre-university religion and life curriculum. This research is R&D and evaluative. The population consisted of students in all school districts in Tehran province (academic year 2010-2011) that were selected by multistage cluster sampling method and randomly. In order to verify the cognitive goals of religious education used achievement tests of multiple choices in six levels. To measure the progress of lower levels goals of cognitive used knowledge and understanding level tests’. Too, the measure the progress of higher levels goals of cognitive used application, analysis, synthesis and evaluation tests’ to separate gradesThe results showed that was not realized in the first grade and pre-university, none of the goals of low levels of cognitive (knowledge and understanding) and High levels (application, analysis, synthesis and evaluation). While in the second and third grades was relatively knowledge level and other level were unacceptable. According to results, knowledge goals of religious education have not been realized in secondary and pre-university generally. So, suggestions are presented for improving cognitive goals.
hamide pakmehr; fatemah mirdrogi; ali ghanaei; morteza karami
Volume 3, Issue 11 , April 2013, , Pages 33-54
Abstract
Background: The importance of critical thinking disposition in educational system and curricula at levels prior to higher education is indicative of the need for a short-form tool to measure this construct.
Objective: The aim of this study was to investigate the reliability, validity and factor structure ...
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Background: The importance of critical thinking disposition in educational system and curricula at levels prior to higher education is indicative of the need for a short-form tool to measure this construct.
Objective: The aim of this study was to investigate the reliability, validity and factor structure of Ricketts' (2003) Critical Thinking Disposition Questionnaire among high school students.
Methods: In this descriptive-survey research, 472 high school students (270 girls and 202 boys) in Mashhad in the school year 2010-2011 were selected using multistage cluster sampling, who completed Critical Thinking Disposition Questionnaire. The validity of the questionnaire was assessed using content validity, construct validity and factorial validity.The reliability of the questionnaire was examined by internal consistency and split-half method.
Findings: Cronbach's alpha coefficients were calculated for all scales and subscales for both genders and all subjects with regards to favorable psychometric properties. All correlations between subscales and total scale score were significant. The results of confirmatory factor analysis indicated that the items were good fit. Moreover, the result of split-half method showed that reliability coefficient of the test was satisfactory.
Conclusion: The results of the study showed that the Persian version of the Critical Thinking Disposition Questionnaire has a good reliability and validity in Iranian society and is an appropriate instrument for assessing critical thinking disposition in high school students.
