Academic Self-efficacy as a Precondition for Critical Thinking in University Students

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Result on the web

<a href="https://www.pegegog.net/index.php/pegegog/article/view/2544/672" target="_blank" >https://www.pegegog.net/index.php/pegegog/article/view/2544/672</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.47750/pegegog.13.02.36" target="_blank" >10.47750/pegegog.13.02.36</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Academic Self-efficacy as a Precondition for Critical Thinking in University Students

Original language description

Critical thinking is considered one of the key competencies of university students and its importance increases with the effort to develop students’ creativity, independence as well as scientific thinking. For this skill, it is important to have confidence in one’s ability to solve problems, find relevant answers or to formulate defensible conclusions. The aim of the paper was to determine whether academic self-efficacy acted as a precondition for critical thinking in university students. A total of 451 university students were involved in this study. The data were obtained by The Critical Thinking Disposition Inventory and the Academic Self-Efficacy Scale. The results showed that academic self-efficacy predicted all the three dimensions of critical thinking, albeit with a small amount of explained variance ranging from 8.1 to 12.2%. Although the main factor moderating each dimension of critical thinking is the effect of academic self-efficacy, a gender interaction effect was also found, which was more evident for males than females.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50302 - Education, special (to gifted persons, those with learning disabilities)

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Pegem Egitim ve Ogretim Dergisi

ISSN

2146-0655

e-ISSN

2148-239X

Volume of the periodical

2023

Issue of the periodical within the volume

vol.13, no.2

Country of publishing house

TR - TURKEY

Number of pages

7

Pages from-to

328-334

UT code for WoS article

000944542300036

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85150189075