Determinantsof Intermediate Pupils' Critical Thinking Abilityin Science: Call for Renewed Administrative Concern

Authors

  • Maria Theresa Cabullo

Keywords:

teaching style, parenting style, critical thinking ability

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

Teachers play a vital role in developing young ones. It is the responsibility of the teachers to make their academic instruction effective. They should teach pupils different skills including critical thinking skills. Likewise, parents play a vital role in the learning of the child. They are the primary teachers of the child. As the home is the first school and parents are the first teachers, they bear influence in the development of critical thinking skills of their children. Critical thinking is an important and vital topic in modern education. All educators are interested in teaching critical thinking to their students. It is necessary to teach critical thinking in Science to improve the thinking skills of pupils and thus, better prepare them to succeed in the world. Teachers have to do something to develop the pupils' ability to think critically especially in the field of Science. The researcher, who is currently handling Science subject, was alarmed by the performance of pupils in Science and their ability to think critically.

 

METHODS

The research design used in this study is the descriptive-relationship method. The said method determined the respondents' profile, parenting style, teaching style and performance in Science. Relationships between the independent and dependent variables were also looked into. Survey questionnaires were utilized in gathering the needed data and information. The statistical tools applied to the data were frequency count, percentage, mean, standard deviation and multiple regression analysis.

 

RESULTS

On parenting styles, the parent respondents practiced great extent of instinctive and attachment and practiced helicopter, authoritative and permissive at a little extent. The teacher-respondents teaching styles were very highly evident in directing, discussing and delegating, while teachers described the pupils with very satisfactory critical thinking ability in Science with respect to analysis and evaluation. On the profile of the respondents, the teachers' number oftraining, pupils' age and teachers' teaching competence appeared to be the determinant of critical thinking ability on analysis of pupils while on evaluation, the teachers' number of training, teachers' educational attainment, pupils' age and teachers' field of specialization.

 

DISCUSSIONS

The results demonstrate that parents helicopter parenting style and teachers discussing style will contribute to the critical thinking ability of intermediate pupils.

Published

2019-01-18