Prevailing Patterns of Thinking among Students of Tafila Technical University, Jordan

Atif Eid Alrfooh

Abstract


The aim of this study is to investigate thinking patterns among Tafila Technical university students, and its relationship with faculty, gender, general point average, and academic level.

The sample of study consists of (210) male and female students who have been enrolled in Tafila Technical university during 2007/ 2008 from the five faculties  To achieve the purposes of this study , the study used thinking pattern questionnaire which was developed by (Hamodeh,2000) then the validity and reliability were obtained  .

Also means, standard deviations, and 4-way ANOVA were used. The results showed that:-

  1. Scientific thinking was the most common pattern of thinking.
  2. There is no statistically significant differences due to faculty, gender, general point average, and academic level on the thinking pattern.

The researchers suggested teaching different thinking pattern skills on studying courses such as creativity and critical thinking.

Keywords: critical thinking, creative, strategies, learning, patterns


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