Abstract:

This study investigated the effects of teaching with Edward De Bono’s skill based Cort1 thinking programme and teaching with content based critical thinking programme in social studies subject on prospective teachers’ critical thinking disposition and level The research was designed as an experimental pre test post test control group design There were two experiments and one control group in the research Total of 76 students participated voluntarly to the study There were 22 students in the first experimental group 27 students in the second experimental group 27 students in the control group Groups are equalized on the basis of pre test results of California Critical Thinking Disposition Inventory Ennis Weir Critical Thinking Essay Test and Personal Information Forms Edward De Bono’s skill based Cort1 critical thinking programme was applied to the experimental group one; content based critical thinking programme was applied to the experimental group two SPSS 10 0 is used as statistic sofware package to analyze data First the data was analyzed by using descriptive statistics such as mean and standart deviation then they were analyzed inferentially by using one way anova and covariance techniques The result of this study covariating pre test results for the post test results of California Critical Thinking Disposition Inventory and Ennis Weir Critical Thinking Essay Test the research results shows: a Significant differences are found among experimental groups and control group in favor of experimental groups b Skill based experiment group one was significantly better than the content based experiment group two Keywords: Thinking critical thinking attitude toward critical thinking

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