Answer to Question #221048 in Management for Imran

Question

Q1: An educational researcher is interested in the relationship between students’ participation in two after school programs and academic achievement. She states the following hypothesis in the description of her study:

H.1. Children who participate in an after-school program that emphasizes critical thinking skills will score higher on measures of academic achievement and self-esteem than students who participate in a program that emphasizes on repeated memorization.

Detail out the research process she should adopt to validate the hypothesis.

Answer 1

Critical thinking is the intellectually disciplined process of actively and skillfully conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and/or evaluating information gathered from, or generated by, observation, experience, reflection, reasoning, or communication, as a guide to belief and action. It can lead to developing your judgement, evaluation and problem solving abilities. Learning Critical Thinking skills can also enhance your academic performance. The skills developed in Critical Thinking directly help students do better even at the Mathematical reasoning tests. Critical thinking is one of the important effective factors on the academic achievement. Indeed, learners with critical thinking learn many abilities and competencies which improve their effectiveness. As a result, this factor results in the learners' success. There were positive correlations between self-esteem and critical thinking disposition, between self-efficacy and critical thinking disposition, and between self-esteem and self-efficacy. Self-esteem and self-efficacy were significant predictors of critical thinking disposition.