تقــــــــييم مهارات التفكير الناقد للطلاب المتفوقين في كلية التربية بجامعة حائل

The study aimed to assess the Critical Thinking skills of outstanding students in the college of education at the University of Hail. Participants of the study consisted of all (131) outstanding students in the college of education at the University of Hail. To achieve the objectives of the study, a critical thinking test created by Watson & Gelcer was used. The results concluded that the participants displayed critical thinking skills in the total skills with a percentage value of (55.94%), which is less than the educationally acceptable limit of (60%), which has been adopted by many educators and researchers. The participants also displayed critical thinking skills in varying proportions according to the following order: the skill of discussions, then the skill of interpretation, then the skill of deduction, then the skill of assumptions, and finally the skill of conclusion. The percentage of the two skills of discussions and interpretation was more than the educationally acceptable limit, which is (60%). Also, there was a non-statistically significant difference at the significance level (α = 0.05) between the mean scores of the participants (males and females) in favor of male students in skills (assumptions, deduction, conclusion) and in the total of critical thinking skills. There is also a statistically significant difference at the significance level (α = 0.05) in the skill of interpretation in favor of male students. Also, there is also a statistically significant difference at the significance level (α = 0.05) in the skills of discussions in favor of female students. The study recommended that the focus should be on all critical thinking skills when preparing the tests and holding training courses and workshops that provide teachers with how to focus on critical thinking skills in the teaching process.
Keywords: Critical Thinking Skills, Excellent Students, Assumptions Discussions, Interpretation, Deduction.