Exploring the Students’ Critical Thinking Disposition (Case study: Farabi Campus Students, University of Tehran)

The ultimate goal of any pedagogy system is to create positive transformations in human and finding a desired identity for him/her in social and individual life. Undoubtedly, higher education system is not free from explicit and implicit transfer of certain norms and insights to learners. One of the goals of the higher education system is to educate learners who conduct scientific activities by using different thinking methods especially critical thinking. Thus, present study intends to examine the students’ critical thinking disposition and the relationship between dependent variable of students’ critical thinking disposition and independent variables of gender, age, educational field and educational grade. This goal was realized by using a survey and Ricketts standard questionnaire (2003). Respondents were students at Farabi Campus of University of Tehran. The basis of selecting the students was random sampling technique by which 346 subjects were selected and analyzed from students’ population (3550 students). Of the most important findings of the research, one can refer to the fact that students in research population tend to critical thinking. Additionally, research findings suggest that there is a significant relationship between gender, age and educational grade with students’ critical thinking disposition while no significant association was observed between educational field and students’ critical thinking disposition.