Critical thinking
Overview
- Influence: Critical thinking
- Domain: Student
- Sub-Domain: Prior knowledge and background
- Potential to Accelerate Student Achievement: Potential to 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: 1
- Number of studies: 23
- Number of students: 8,233
- Number of effects: 23
- Effect size: 0.49
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 |
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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 | 23 | 8,233 | 23 | 0.49 |
Confidence
The Confidence is the average of these four measures, each divided into five approximately equal groups and assigned a value from 1 to 5 based on the following criteria:
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Number of Meta-analyses
- 1 = 1
- 2 = 2–3
- 3 = 4–6
- 4 = 7–9
- 5 = 10+
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Number of Studies
- 1 = 1–10
- 2 = 11–50
- 3 = 51–200
- 4 = 201–400
- 5 = 400+
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Number of Students
- 1 = 1–2,500
- 2 = 2,501–10,000
- 3 = 10,000–20,000
- 4 = 20,000–100,000
- 5 = 100,001+
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Number of Effects
- 1 = 1–100
- 2 = 101–300
- 3 = 301–600
- 4 = 601–1,200
- 5 = 1,200+
Number of Meta-Analyses | Number of Studies | Number of Students | Number of Effects | Overall Confidence | |
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Confidence Factor | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 |