Academic Advancement and Its Relationship to Critical Thinking among University Students
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The current research aims to identify the academic advancement and its relationship to the critical thinking of university students. In order to achieve the objectives of the current study, the researcher followed the steps of the descriptive correlative approach by defining the research community represented by the students of the University of Baghdad for the scientific and humanitarian disciplines and for both sexes for the year 2021-2022. Among the scientific and humanitarian disciplines, and in order to collect data from the study sample, the researcher adopted the two current research scales and extracted for them a set of basic psychometric characteristics (reliability and stability) and after reassurance of those characteristics, the two research tools were applied to the research sample and the study reached the following results:
- There is a level of academic advancement for university students
- There are statistically significant differences in the academic advancement of university students according to the gender variable and in favor of females.
- There is a level of critical thinking among university students
- There are statistically significant differences in the critical thinking of university students according to the gender variable and in favor of males
- There is a statistically significant relationship between academic advancement and critical thinking among university students.
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