The Structure,Measurement And Development Charateristics Of Teenagers’ Critical Thinking Disposition

Critical thinking disposition is the stable psychological quality,which related with query,judgment,evaluation,introspection.Teenager is in the form of thinking operational stage,it’s important to cultivate critical thinking disposition.Beside,it’s need to get an effective research assessment tool,the development of local young people critical thinking disposition inventory has practical significance.This study is divided into three parts on the basis of literature review、interview and open questionnaire investigation:(1)Critical thinking disposition structure exploration.By using the method of social validity,we investigate Teenagers’ Critical Thinking Disposition Implicit Theories.Then concluded the structure contain five factors which namely sensitivity,consciousness,truth,openness,suspicion nature through factor analysis.(2)Teenagers’ Critical Thinking Disposition Inventory.Through the item analysis、reliability and validity,the final questionnaire consists of five sub-scales,consisting of 48 projects.(3)Investigation of teenagers’ critical thinking disposition.Through the " Teenagers’ Critical Thinking Disposition Inventory "(TCTDI),by assessing the teenagers,we can see that: There is a significant difference in gender of middle-school students’ critical thinking disposition.Teen critical thinking disposition scores show an increasing trend with grades,their consciousness,truth,openness dimension has significant differences in grades.There are also significant differences in debate,class cadres and community experience.(4)Relationship of teenagers’ critical thinking disposition.Using "NEO-FFI","My class"," EMBU" to explore the relationship with a teenagers’ critical thinking disposition.Eventually found: Personality and class environment could predict teenagers’ critical thinking disposition.