An Assessment of Critical Thinking Skills of Thai Undergraduate Students in Private Thai Universities in Bangkok through an Analytical and Critical Reading Test
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Nov 29, 2018
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The purpose of this research was to assess the critical thinking of Thai undergraduate students in a sample of private Thai universities in Bangkok. The population studied was 6,436 English major students in Faculties of Humanities and Liberal Arts in a total of 12 private universities in Bangkok which offer analytical and critical reading courses to their English major students. The selected sample was 400 English major students who studied analytical and critical reading courses in 4 private Thai universities in Bangkok, taken from purposive sampling. The research instrument was an analytical and critical reading test. Collected data was analyzed by mean, standard deviation and statistical analysis of variance (ANOVA). Result of the study showed that
critical thinking of Thai undergraduate students in private Thai universities was at a low level with
a mean score of 5.93 marks (from the total score of 15 marks) with a standard deviation of 2.67.
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Ploysangwal, W. (2018). An Assessment of Critical Thinking Skills of Thai Undergraduate Students in Private Thai Universities in Bangkok through an Analytical and Critical Reading Test. University of the Thai Chamber of Commerce Journal Humanities and Social Sciences, 38(3), 75–91. retrieved from https://so06.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/utccjournalhs/article/view/158002
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ผลงานที่ได้รับการตีพิมพ์ถือเป็นลิขสิทธิ์ของมหาวิทยาลัยหอการค้าไทย ห้ามมิให้นำเนื้อหา ทัศนะ หรือข้อคิดเห็นใด ๆ ของผลงานไปทำซ้ำ ดัดแปลง หรือเผยแพร่ ไม่ว่าทั้งหมดหรือบางส่วนโดยไม่ได้รับอนุญาตเป็นลายลักษณ์อักษรจากมหาวิทยาลัยหอการค้าไทยก่อน
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