Impact of a Program to Promote Critical Thinking through Informal Logic in University Students of Argentina

DA DALT, ELIZABETH

International Journal of Research in Humanities and Social Studies

SRYAHWA

Año: 2015 vol. 2 p. 43 - 56

The aim of this empirical research was to evaluate the impact of an educational intervention program to promote higher order cognitive skills involved in critical thinking in university students. Methodology: Socratic Dialogue and Informal Logic. Rating: by the Argentinian Adaptation of the Watson Glaser Critical Thinking Appraisal Form A (Robert Goodwin Watson & Glaser, 1980) by Chalupa (2006) and validated by Da Dalt and Difabio (2007). The sample consisted of 94 academic students (38 subjects, experimental group 56, control group) of Psychology and Education at a private university in Argentina, of middle socio-cultural level. Design: beforeafter. Statistical procedure: MANOVA of repeated measures.