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标题：Effects of Life Skills Training On Improving Critical Thinking among Iranian Fifth Grade Primary School Girls
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作者：Fatemeh Parasteh Ghombavani
期刊名称：Journal of Current Research in Science
印刷版ISSN：2322-5009
出版年度：2016
卷号：4
期号：Special 2
页码：521-530
出版社：Islamic press
摘要：Understanding the social and environmental factors that influence activity is important in life style of children and adolescents. The goal of this quantitative study was to investigate whether critical thinking skills manifests after life skills training. Solomon four-group quasi-experimental research method was used. The study involves 65 students who enrolled in a public primary school girls (fifth grade) in the academic year 2013-2014. Two groups received pre-testing, the experimental groups were given the twelve sessions teaching life skills. At the conclusion of the training, all groups were post-tested and the results between groups were compared. The students were assessed by the follow-up test to explore the lasting effects of training. The results from California Critical Thinking Skills Test (CCTST) indicated that the overall and all subscales of critical thinking skills improved in experimental groups, they outperformed the conventional groups. The results of follow-up showed that life skills training resulted in lasting change of critical thinking in experimental groups, and finding were favourable towards increasing this skill. The study serves as a conceptual framework for future studies evaluating life skills programs. The findings could contribute to improve critical thinking by life skills training, increase their understanding of thinking especially in decision-making and problem-solving, and promote positive social adjustment
关键词：critical thinking; experimental; life skills training; primary school girls; Solomon four-group; Tehran-Iran