Characteristics of Critical Thinking and Application of Metacognitive Strategies Among Mathematics Teachers

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 1Secondary mathematics teacher, General Administration of Education in the Northern Border Region.

2 2Associate Professor of Curricula and Methods of Teaching Mathematics Northern Border University.

Abstract

This study aimed to reveal the critical thinking characteristics of mathematics teachers in Rafha Governorate, determine the degree of their application of metacognitive strategies, and reveal the relationship between the degrees of availability of critical thinking characteristics and the degrees of application of metacognitive strategies in teaching mathematics. To achieve the objectives of the study, the descriptive approach was used, and the study sample was Of (73) teachers, the results of the study indicated that the overall average score for critical thinking traits was (3.97/5) at a high level, and the field of “intellectual empathy” ranked first with a very high degree of availability (4.23/5), then the field of “justice.” “Intellectual bias” ranked second with a very high degree of availability (4.20/5), and other fields appeared with a high degree of availability (3.99-3.83), and “intellectual courage” came in the last rank. The results also concluded that the general arithmetic mean of the degrees of mathematics teachers’ application of metacognitive strategies was high ( 3.97), where self-monitoring strategies came in the first rank, then the planning strategy appeared in the second rank with a high degree, and self-evaluation came in the third rank with a high degree and the last, The results also indicated that there is a positive, high degree of correlation between the characteristics of critical thinking and the degrees of application of metacognitive strategies in teaching mathematics, where the value of the correlation coefficient reached (0.88), which is a statistically significant value at the significance level (0.01).

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