Influences Affecting The Development of Critical Thinkers in Students
Izhaan Khan
MS Scholar of University of Peshawar
Abstract
Articipation in extracurricular activities, formal classroom and instructional encounters, and exposure to the curriculum are the three aspects of students' collegiate experiences that will be investigated in this study in an effort to determine the distinct impacts that each of these aspects has on improvements in critical thinking. The experiences that students have outside of the classroom as well as those that they have within the educational setting have a discernible, statistically significant, and beneficial impact on the development of critical thinking abilities in students. This is in addition to the pre-college characteristics and aptitude for critical thinking that students bring with them to college. This study presents empirical data to support a notion that has been around for a long time, namely that the academic and non-academic experiences of students combine synergistically to influence one another and one's personal growth and development. It is possible that anyone working in the field of evaluation or college research impact analysis will find the design and methodology used in this study to be of significant use.
