The Achievement and Development of Critical Thinking Skills in the Arabic Language of Adolescent Pupils With reference to The Primary Stage throughout Jordan
Dr. Zakariya I . Abu- Dabat

Abstract
This study aims to investigate and measure the students' critical thinking skills and achievements in the Arabic language at Primary and secondary stages, also measuring the development of the cognitive Dimentions of critical thinking asserted by the researcher. The researcher has identified five elements which comprise of the varying levels of critical thinking abilities in the Arabic Language. These are as follows; analyses, inference, Induction, deduction and evaluation,. The Arabic grammar and literature exam has been formulated for both primary and secondary Pupils, in order to answer the questions posed by the study. The researcher found out that the levels achievement of critical thinking of students in both stages, are average and satisfactory, there is no significant statistical difference in the achievement of critical thinking skills between primary and secondary students, there is also no significant statistical differences in the achievement of critical thinking skills attributed to gender, However there are significant statistical differences in the achievement of critical thinking skills between Government schools & public schools. Records show that critical thinking thrives mostly in public schools. According to the category of critical thinking skills, students can deal with analysis best, This dimension ranked top of the list of answers Evaluation, inference, deduction and induction came last respectively.

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