Dialectical thinking and its relationship to some variables among postgraduate students at Tikrit University
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The current research aims to identify:
1- Dialectical thinking among graduate students.
2- The significance of statistical differences in dialectical thinking among postgraduate students according to the variables of gender (males_females) and specialization (scientific_humanities).
To achieve the research objectives, the two researchers built a measure of dialectical thinking, which consists of (30) items distributed over three areas: (contradiction - cognitive change - behavioral change) and each item has five alternatives (strongly agree, agree, neutral, disagree, strongly disagree).
The apparent validity of the scale was verified by presenting it to a group of arbitrators and all of them approved it. The discrimination coefficient and correlation coefficient were extracted for the scale items with the total score of the scale and the total score for each field. The reliability of the scale was calculated by the retest method and amounted to (0.85), and by the consistency method. The internal analysis was done using Cronbach's alpha coefficient. The alpha reliability coefficient for the scale reached (0.89), and this is considered a good reliability coefficient.
The two researchers applied the tool to a random stratified sample of Tikrit University students (Graduate studies) and it amounted to (300) male and female students, and to treat it statistically, the two researchers used statistical methods (chi-square, t-test for two independent samples, Pearson correlation coefficient, Cronbach’s alpha coefficient, one-sample t-test, and two-sample analysis of variance) and the results of the research showed the following:
1- Postgraduate students have an average level of dialectical thinking.
2-There are no statistically significant differences between postgraduate students according to the variable of gender (males - females) and specialization (scientific - humanities).
Through the results reached by the two researchers, they presented a set of recommendations and proposals.
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