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Version 1.2 – Updated June 2023

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: 3
  • Number of studies: 94
  • Number of students: 8,233
  • Number of effects: 114
  • Weighted mean effect size: 0.84
  • Robustness index: 3

Meta-Analyses

Meta-Analyses
Journal Title Author First Author's Country Article Name Year Published Variable Number of Studies Number of Students Number of Effects Effect Size
Psycho-Educational Research Reviews Orhan Turkey The Relationship between Critical Thinking and Academic Achievement: A Meta-Analysis Study.  2022 Critical thinking 47 0 67 0.93
Journal of Human Sciences Çömek, Sariçayir, & Erdogan Turkey Effectiveness of the argumentation method: A meta-analysis.  2015 Argumentation 24 0 24 1.00
Thinking Skills and Creativity Fong, Kim, Davis, Hoang, & Kim USA A meta-analysis on critical thinking and community college student achievement 2017 Critical thinking 23 8,233 23 0.49
TOTAL/AVERAGE 94 8,233 114 0.81
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