Building critical thinking in pre-service teachers: Dispositions, skills, and standards
PLOS ONE, vol.20, no.8 August, 2025 (SCI-Expanded)
- Publication Type: Article / Article
- Volume: 20 Issue: 8 August
- Publication Date: 2025
- Doi Number: 10.1371/journal.pone.0330536
- Journal Name: PLOS ONE
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Abstract
It is necessary for pre-service teachers to develop their critical thinking dispositions and skills in the pre-service period to develop similar skills in their future students. This research employed a one-group pretest-posttest design to investigate the effect of a 10-week critical thinking training on pre-service teachers’ critical thinking. The training had a significant effect on the development of critical thinking skills. While training led to a significant improvement in critical openness as a sub-dimension of critical thinking disposition, it did not affect critical skepticism. The results revealed significant differences in depth-breadth-adequacy and precision-accuracy dimensions of critical thinking standards.