Classification of Students into Types Based on the Critical Thinking Skills and Analysis of the Effectiveness of Education and Learning Experience to the Critical Thinking Skills by Type.

Abstract

In this study，we classify university students into types based on three critical thinking skills， and we analyzed the effects that the critical thinking disposition and behavior influence the skills． In addition， we analyzed the factors which affect the disposition and behavior． As a result， we were able to classify the university students in three types． Students in the type with relatively high skills acquired the abilities by the accumulation of the experience from primary schoolchild time， in the type with relatively low skills the current behavior influenced the abilities， and in the type with high writing and communication abilities the current disposition influenced abilities． In the analysis of conditional probability distribution， the difference of the change of abilities influenced by the disposition or behavior between the types with high and low skills was indicated．