Expectations and assessment of the critical thinking of engineeringstudents of the Universidad Continental, Huancayo
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Critical thinking, expectations, assessmentAbstract
The objective of this work was to determine the level of relationship between the expectations ans the assessment of critical thinking of engineering students of the Universidad Continental. To fulfill this porpuse, a sample of 168 engineering students of Universidad Continental has been selected; who participated in a survey, making use of the Motivational Critical Thinking scale. Thre results show respect to the expectations of critical thinking according to age, that those belonging to the age group of 18 to 23 years have a high expectation about the development of their crititcal thinking; and only 7 ofthe respondent only The results show respect to the expectations of critical thinking according to age, that those belonging to the age group of 18 to 23 years have a high expectation about the development of their critical thinking; and only 7 of the respondents stated that they had a low expectation; also regarding the assessment of critical thinking according to age, a total of 165 students have a high rating on the development of their critical thinking; and a low rating only 3 of the students; Students who have a low rating are 18, 20 and 28 years old respectively; analyzed by sex, specialty and semester no significant differences are found. In conclusion, the level of relationship of students’ expectations regarding the development of their critical thinking and the assessment of critical thinking they have is high, positive and significant; this is inferred from the calculated chi-square which is 70, this value is high and has a positive correlation; likewise its p-value is 0 therefore it is significant.
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