Browsing by Author "Lacri, Fatiha"

The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of adopting a developed program for fostering creative and critical thinking abilities among students at Algeria's Higher School of Teachers (All-Kubba). The mixed method was employed by the researcher to meet the study's aims (quantitative quasi-experimental with one group, consisting of a pre-test, post-test, and the qualitative approach). The designed program was tested on 37 students from Algiers' Higher School of Teachers (Scientific branches). It contained the California Critical Thinking Test (2000 AD) Picture (A), the verbal creative thinking test developed by the researcher, and an interview with (8) students. The findings revealed that 1)statistically significant differences between the post-test and the pre-test for selecting creative thinking, 2)the impact of the developed program on developing creative thinking skills according to Cohen's index (D) exceeds 0.8, implying that the size of the impact of implementing the developed program on developing creative thinking skills (originality, fluency, and flexibility) is large, estimated at (2.51), 3) statistically significant differences between the post and pre-test of critical thinking skills (analysis, induction, and conclusion), but no statistically significant differences between the post and pre-test of critical thinking skills (inference and evaluation). According to Cohen's index (D), less than (0.8) is regarded a medium value and less than (0.5) is considered a weak value. The overall impact of critical thinking was estimated to be (0.38, weak), implying that the whole impact of implementing the developed program for improving critical thinking abilities is weak.