| Abstract:
The purpose of the present research was to evaluate students’ critical thinking at Ferdowsi University of Mashhad. Watson-Glaser Critical Thinking Appraisal (WGCTA) was administered with on 144 undergraduate students in order to measure their critical thinking skills. WGCTA contains 80 items across five domains of critical thinking: Drawing Inferences, Recognizing Assumptions, Argument Evaluation, Deductive Reasoning, and Logical Interpretation. The results of a series of independent t-tests showed no difference across the two genders or across various academic desciplines; however, seniors scored significantly higher on critical thinking than freshmen.
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