The Effect of a Critical Thinking Course on Students at the University of Petra during the Covid-19 Pandemic

Abstract

The study aimed to identify the impact of a critical thinking course on the degree of critical thinking skills acquired by University of Petra students through distance learning during the Corona pandemic. Using a comparative descriptive approach, the study examined the responses of all students enrolled in the course for the first semester of the 2020/2021 academic year. Results showed a high level of critical thinking skills (assumption prediction, interpretation, argument evaluation, deduction, inferential reasoning,) attributed to the critical thinking course. There were statistically significant differences, due to gender, in the degree to which students claimed to possess the skill of predicting assumptions, but none in the basic critical thinking skills attributable to the college variable.