Document Type : Scientific - Research
Authors
1 دانشگاه بیرجند- دانشکده علوم تربیتی
2 Assistant Professor, Department of Information Science and Science, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, University of Zabol . Iran
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to investigate the mediating role of critical thinking in the relationship between personality traits and creativity with academic performance of students. The research method is applied and correlational. The study population consisted of all undergraduate engineering students of Birjand University who were studying in the academic year 2018-2019. 180 students were selected by relative stratified sampling method. SPSS and AMOS software were used for data analysis. To collect data, three questionnaires were used: California critical thinking skills form (B), standard creativity questionnaire, personality scale, and performance measures. Students’ academic achievement was considered as their average of the previous year in the academic year 2018. Findings showed that personality traits have a direct and significant effect on critical thinking, creativity on critical thinking, personality traits on academic performance, creativity on academic performance, critical thinking, and personality traits. Creativity through indirect thinking has a direct and significant effect on academic performance. The results of the path analysis also showed that the conceptual model of the research was well-suited.
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Wagerman, S. A., & Funder, D. C. (2007). Acquaintance reports of personality and academic achievement: A case for conscientiousness. Journal of Research in Personality, 41(1), 221-229.
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Abedi, J. (2001). Creativity and new methods of measuring creativity. Journal of Educational Psychology, 12. 17-31 [in Persian].
Abtahi, M; & Nadri, Kh. (2011). The relationship between creativity and social adjustment with the academic performance of high school students in Zanjan. Educational Management Research, 3 (2 (Serial 10)), 15-28 [in Persian].
Aitken Harris, J. (2004). Measured intelligence, achievement, openness to experience, and creativity. Personality and Individual Differences, 36(4), 913-29.
Akbıyık, C., & Seferoğlu, S. S. (2002). Critical thinking dispositions and academic achievement. Unpublished Master Degree Thesis. Hacettepe University, Institute of Social Sciences, Ankara.
Allah Karami, A; & Aliabadi, K. (2012). The role of creativity in predicting critical thinking and happiness. Journal of Innovation and Creativity in the Humanities, 2 (2), 70-49 [in Persian].Amin Khandaghi, M; Pakmehr, H. (2011). The relationship between students’ critical thinking and mental health in Mashhad University of Medical Sciences. Journal of Healing Basics. 2 (50), 113-132 [in Persian].
Ashuri, J. (2014). The relationship between self-efficacy, critical thinking, thinking styles and emotional intelligence with nursing students’ academic achievement, Scientific Journal of Hamadan School of Nursing and Midwifery. 22 (3). 15- 22 [in Persian].
Athari, Z; Sharifi, M; Nematbakhsh, M, & Baba Mohammadi, H. (2009). Evaluation of critical thinking skills and its relationship with the rank of the national entrance exam in students of Isfahan University of Medical Sciences. Journal of Education in Medical Sciences, 1 (9). 5-12 [in Persian].
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Badri Gargari, R. (2012). Cognitive abilities and personality traits as predictors of critical thinking. Journal of New Educational Thoughts. 7 (4), 76- 59 [in Persian].
Chamorro-Premuzic, T., Reichenbacher, L. (2008). Effects of personality and threat of evaluation on divergent and convergent thinking. Journal of Research in Personality, 42(4), 1095-101.
D’Alessio, F. A., Avolio, B. E., & Charles, V. (2019). Studying the impact of critical thinking on the academic performance of executive MBA students. Thinking Skills and Creativity, 31, 275-283.
Deyoung, C., Peterson, J., & Higgins, D. (2005). Sources of openness/intellect: Cognitive and neuropsychological correlates of the fifth factor of personality. Journal of Personality, 73(4), 825-58.
Esayi Cheshmehmahi, M; Bagherian, F; & Hassanzadeh Tavakoli, M. R. (2011). Investigating the relationship between personality dimensions and students’ academic performance. Management and Planning in Educational Systems, 4 (6), 115-130.
Facione, N. C., & Facione, P. A. (1997). Critical thinking assessment in nursing education programs: an aggregate data analysis. California: California Academic Press.
Fathi Azar, I, Ledri Gargari, R, & Ahrari, Gh. (2014). The effect of Dubono’s six-hat thinking technique training on students’ critical thinking orientation and creativity. Innovation and Creativity in the Humanities, 4 (1), 188-159 [in Persian].
Furnham, A., & Bachtiar, V. (2008). Personality and intelligence as predictors of creativity. Personality and Individual Differences, 45(7), 613-7.
Ghaedi Heidari, F, & Toogian Chaharsooqi, N. (2014). Correlation of critical thinking with personality traits in nursing students of Isfahan University of Medical Sciences. Journal of Development Strategies in Medical Education, 1 (1), -117-11 [in Persian].
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Ghiyasi, M. (2014). Critical thinking, children and the media. Child, Adolescent and Media Quarterly, 1 & 2, 53-79 [in Persian].
Hursen, C. (2020). The effect of problem-based learning method supported by Web 2.0 Tools on Academic Achievement and critical thinking skills in teacher education. Technology, Knowledge and Learning, 1-19.
Izadi, S; & Mohammadzadeh Molaei, R. (2007). Investigating the relationship between learning styles, personality traits and students’ academic performance. Behavior Scholar, 14, 28-15.
Jury, M., Smeding, A., Court, M., & Darnon, C. (2015). When first-generation students succeed at university: On the link between social class, academic performance, and performance-avoidance goals. Contemporary Educational Psychology, 41, 25-36.
Ku, K. Y. L., & Ho, I. T. (2010). Metacognitive strategies that enhance critical thinking. Metacognition and Learning, 5 (3), 251-267.
McCrae RR, Costa PT. (2004). A contemplated revision of the NEO Five-Factor Inventory. Pers Individ Dif. 36(3):587-96.
Mehrafrooz, H. (2008). Investigating the relationship between attitudes toward maternal parenting styles (rational authority, authoritarianism and emancipation) with the possibility of control and academic achievement in fourth grade elementary school male students. Master Thesis. Tarbiat Moalem University [in Persian].
Miller, G. F., & Tal, I. R. (2007). Schizotypy versus openness and intelligence as predictors of creativity. Schizophr Res, 93(1-3), 317-24.
Mohammadi, S. D., Muslimi, Z., & Qomi, M. (2015). The relationship between critical thinking skills and creativity and academic achievement of Qom University of Medical Sciences Students. Journal of Educational Strategies in Medical Sciences, 9 (1), 79-89 [in Persian].
Olatoye RA, Akintunde SO, Ogunsanya EA. (2011). Relationship between creativity and academic achievement of business administration students in south western polytechnics, Nigeria. Int African Res Review. 4(3a):134-149.
Paunonen, S. V., & Ashton, M. C. (2001). Big five factors and facets and the prediction of behavior. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 81, 524-539.
Rastjoo, S; Sepehr, H; Zandvanian Naeeni, A. (2016). Investigating the tendency of critical thinking and its relationship with academic performance (Case study: Master students of Yazd University). Letter of Higher Education, 9 (34), 171-189 [in Persian].
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Ridley, M. J., Spence, H. K., & Goldenberg, D. (1995). The effect of a senior preceptorship on the adaptive competencies of community college nursing students. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 22(1), 58-65.
Saka, A. Z. (2009). Hitting two birds with a stone: Assessment of an effective approach in science teaching and improving professional skills of student teachers. Procedia-Social and Behavioral Sciences, 1(1), 1533-1544.
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Tanhaye Reshvanlou, F, TanhayeReshvanlou. M., Hejazi E. (2015). Role of professor’s teaching quality on the trend of health students to critical thinking. J Bimo of Educ Strat in Med Sci. 7(6):391-97.
Vahdat, R., Zeinali, A, & Ahmadi Daviran, Z. (2012). The relationship between critical thinking tendency and academic achievement of Urmia High School Students. Journal of the School of Nursing and Midwifery. 10 (1), 97- 104 [in Persian].
Wagerman, S. A., & Funder, D. C. (2007). Acquaintance reports of personality and academic achievement: A case for conscientiousness. Journal of Research in Personality, 41(1), 221-229.
Yeh, Y. C. (2007). Aptitude-treatment interactions in preservice teachers behavior change during computer-simulated teaching. Computers & Education, 48(3), 495-507.
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