The relationship of critical thinking to the research among students at Badji Mokhtar University Annaba

Abstract

This study aimed to identify the reality of critical thinking and its level among university students and to reveal the relationship between critical thinking and the quality of scientific research, and whether there is a relationship attributed to the variables of specialization and gender. The study focused on the following problem: What is the relationship of critical thinking to the quality of scientific research among university students?

    The current study was determined by the descriptive, correlational approach, and the sample was chosen from the University of Annaba, department of psychology, Educational Science, and Orthophonia, wich consisted of 40 male and female students. The study was based on a test that measures the level of critical thinking among university students, which contained 25 items, in addition to the marks of scientific research methodology for all sample members. The following results were reached:

-There is a relationship between critical thinking and the quality of scientific research.

-There are no statistically significant differences in the level of critical thinking and the quality of scientific research according to the gender variable.

There are no statistically significant differences in the quality of scientific research depending on the specialization variable.