Critical Thinking Dispositions as a Predictor for High School Students’ Environmental Attitudes

This non-experimental quantitative study aimed to determine if high school students’ critical thinking (CT) dispositions and environmental attitudes differ by gender, father, and mother’s educational background and their CT dispositions are significant predictors of environmental attitudes. UF/EMI...

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Main Author: Ali Orhan
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Language:English
Published: Seyit Ahmet Kıray 2022-02-01
Series:Journal of Education in Science, Environment and Health
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Online Access:https://jeseh.net/index.php/jeseh/article/view/474
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description This non-experimental quantitative study aimed to determine if high school students’ critical thinking (CT) dispositions and environmental attitudes differ by gender, father, and mother’s educational background and their CT dispositions are significant predictors of environmental attitudes. UF/EMI Critical Thinking Disposition Instrument and Environmental Attitude Scale were used to collect data in this study carried out with 139 high school students. It was found out that students’ CT dispositions did not differ by gender, father, and mother’s educational background. Also, while students’ environmental attitudes differed by gender in favor of females, they did not differ by mother and father’s educational background. Besides, engagement, maturity, and innovativeness were significant predictors of the students’ environmental attitudes. A positive relationship was found between students’ CT dispositions and environmental attitude scores and engagement, maturity, and innovativeness together explained 31% of the total variance on their environmental attitudes.
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spelling doaj-art-e36e5563d2654e6c8617547029704ce12025-02-03T22:04:09ZengSeyit Ahmet KırayJournal of Education in Science, Environment and Health2149-214X2022-02-0181Critical Thinking Dispositions as a Predictor for High School Students’ Environmental AttitudesAli Orhan0https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1234-3919Bulent Ecevit University School of Foreign Languages This non-experimental quantitative study aimed to determine if high school students’ critical thinking (CT) dispositions and environmental attitudes differ by gender, father, and mother’s educational background and their CT dispositions are significant predictors of environmental attitudes. UF/EMI Critical Thinking Disposition Instrument and Environmental Attitude Scale were used to collect data in this study carried out with 139 high school students. It was found out that students’ CT dispositions did not differ by gender, father, and mother’s educational background. Also, while students’ environmental attitudes differed by gender in favor of females, they did not differ by mother and father’s educational background. Besides, engagement, maturity, and innovativeness were significant predictors of the students’ environmental attitudes. A positive relationship was found between students’ CT dispositions and environmental attitude scores and engagement, maturity, and innovativeness together explained 31% of the total variance on their environmental attitudes. https://jeseh.net/index.php/jeseh/article/view/474Environmental attitudescritical thinking dispositionshigh school studentsgendermultiple regression analysis
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Critical Thinking Dispositions as a Predictor for High School Students’ Environmental Attitudes
Journal of Education in Science, Environment and Health
Environmental attitudes
critical thinking dispositions
high school students
gender
multiple regression analysis
title Critical Thinking Dispositions as a Predictor for High School Students’ Environmental Attitudes
title_full Critical Thinking Dispositions as a Predictor for High School Students’ Environmental Attitudes
title_fullStr Critical Thinking Dispositions as a Predictor for High School Students’ Environmental Attitudes
title_full_unstemmed Critical Thinking Dispositions as a Predictor for High School Students’ Environmental Attitudes
title_short Critical Thinking Dispositions as a Predictor for High School Students’ Environmental Attitudes
title_sort critical thinking dispositions as a predictor for high school students environmental attitudes
topic Environmental attitudes
critical thinking dispositions
high school students
gender
multiple regression analysis
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