Comparison between the Critical Thinking, Educational Self- Efficiency and Motivation of the Female and Male Students of Payam Nour University of Yasouj

Bahram Movahedzadeh

Modern Applied Science, 2016, vol. 10, issue 8, 84

Abstract: The current study aims to compare critical thinking, educational self-efficiency and educational motivation among female and male students of Payam Nour University and to determine effects of critical thinking training on educational achievements and motivation. Differences of these variables among students of various fields also were examined. The sample includes 120 students (60 male students and 60 female students) using stratified random sampling. In order to collect data, three questionnaires of California critical thinking skills test (Form B) (CCTST), Murise's educational self-efficiency small-scale and the questionnaire of Hermans advance motivation were applied. This research is of causal-comparative type and multi-variable variance analysis (Monova) and one-sided analysis were used in order to analyze the data statistically. Data analysis results showed that there was significant difference in critical thinking, educational self-efficiency and educational motivation among female and male students when p < 0.01. Moreover, Differences of self-efficacy, critical thinking and motivation among students of different fields were concluded.

Date: 2016
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