Assessment of undergraduates’ real-world outcomes of critical thinking in everyday situations

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Autor(a) principal: Franco, Amanda Helena Rodrigues
Data de Publicação: 2017
Outros Autores: Costa, Patrício Soares, Butler, Heather A., Almeida, Leandro S.
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/1822/50330
Resumo: Critical thinking is a kind of ‘‘good’’ thinking that integrates a set of cognitive skills and dispositions to use those skills with knowledge to increase the chances of success in academic settings, job market, and daily life. The impact of critical thinking on life events, in face of everyday decisions and challenges, is still unclear, and further research is needed. In this exploratory study, a sample of 230 first-year students of a Bachelor’s Degree or a Master’s Degree in Portugal completed an experimental Portuguese version of the Real-World Outcomes, a self-report inventory measuring everyday negative life events that are mediated by a lack of critical thinking. Based on exploratory factor analysis results and theoretical premises, changes were made to the Portuguese version of the inventory that was administered, and items were aggregated into six dimensions, creating a new version that is more familiar to Portuguese young adults in college. This original proposal of the inventory presents six types of negative life events resulting from a lack of critical thinking: health neglect, mismanagement, slackness, poor impulse control, academic negligence, and rashness. Both limitations and future potentialities of this version are presented.
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Assessment of undergraduates’ real-world outcomes of critical thinking in everyday situations
title Assessment of undergraduates’ real-world outcomes of critical thinking in everyday situations
spellingShingle Assessment of undergraduates’ real-world outcomes of critical thinking in everyday situations
Franco, Amanda Helena Rodrigues
Real-World Outcomes
Critical thinking
Higher education
Assessment
Transversal skills
Ciências Sociais::Psicologia
Social Sciences
title_short Assessment of undergraduates’ real-world outcomes of critical thinking in everyday situations
title_full Assessment of undergraduates’ real-world outcomes of critical thinking in everyday situations
title_fullStr Assessment of undergraduates’ real-world outcomes of critical thinking in everyday situations
title_full_unstemmed Assessment of undergraduates’ real-world outcomes of critical thinking in everyday situations
title_sort Assessment of undergraduates’ real-world outcomes of critical thinking in everyday situations
author Franco, Amanda Helena Rodrigues
author_facet Franco, Amanda Helena Rodrigues
Costa, Patrício Soares
Butler, Heather A.
Almeida, Leandro S.
author_role author
author2 Costa, Patrício Soares
Butler, Heather A.
Almeida, Leandro S.
author2_role author
author
author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Universidade do Minho
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Franco, Amanda Helena Rodrigues
Costa, Patrício Soares
Butler, Heather A.
Almeida, Leandro S.
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Real-World Outcomes
Critical thinking
Higher education
Assessment
Transversal skills
Ciências Sociais::Psicologia
Social Sciences
topic Real-World Outcomes
Critical thinking
Higher education
Assessment
Transversal skills
Ciências Sociais::Psicologia
Social Sciences
description Critical thinking is a kind of ‘‘good’’ thinking that integrates a set of cognitive skills and dispositions to use those skills with knowledge to increase the chances of success in academic settings, job market, and daily life. The impact of critical thinking on life events, in face of everyday decisions and challenges, is still unclear, and further research is needed. In this exploratory study, a sample of 230 first-year students of a Bachelor’s Degree or a Master’s Degree in Portugal completed an experimental Portuguese version of the Real-World Outcomes, a self-report inventory measuring everyday negative life events that are mediated by a lack of critical thinking. Based on exploratory factor analysis results and theoretical premises, changes were made to the Portuguese version of the inventory that was administered, and items were aggregated into six dimensions, creating a new version that is more familiar to Portuguese young adults in college. This original proposal of the inventory presents six types of negative life events resulting from a lack of critical thinking: health neglect, mismanagement, slackness, poor impulse control, academic negligence, and rashness. Both limitations and future potentialities of this version are presented.
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