Motivation and Dispositions: Alternative Approaches to Explain the Performance of Critical Thinking Skills

Critical thinking depends on the mastery degrees of some skills and on the will to activate them when reasoning. Traditionally, this second aspect has been focused from a disposition approach (Facione, 1990). However, this perspective demonstrates problems in theoretical as in practical level to ex...

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Hoofdauteurs:	Valenzuela, Jorge, Nieto, Ana María, Muñoz, Carla
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spelling	repositorioinstitucional-20.500.12930-61202023-05-09T15:05:08Z Motivation and Dispositions: Alternative Approaches to Explain the Performance of Critical Thinking Skills Motivación y disposiciones: enfoques alternativos para explicar el desempeño de habilidades de pensamiento crítico Valenzuela, Jorge Nieto, Ana María Muñoz, Carla Motivation Dispositions Critical thinking Motivación Disposiciones Pensamiento crítico Critical thinking depends on the mastery degrees of some skills and on the will to activate them when reasoning. Traditionally, this second aspect has been focused from a disposition approach (Facione, 1990). However, this perspective demonstrates problems in theoretical as in practical level to explain and to develop critical thinking. For this, it is proposed to approach the problem from the Motivation perspective (Eccles and Wigfield, 2002). In this context, our research deals with the evaluation of the convenience to choose one perspective or another to explain the performance of critical thinking, both theoretically and in its predictive capacity. Thus, along with theoretically analyze the strengths and weaknesses of both approaches and it was compared measures of dispositions (CCTDI), motivation (EMPC) and critical thinking (CCTST) in a sample of Spanish university students. The results show that the variability in critical thinking performance is better explained by the motivation than by dispositional approach. Finally, the theoretical and practical convenience of motivational approach in this matter is discussed. El pensamiento crítico depende del grado de dominio de ciertas habilidades y de la voluntad de ponerlas en juego cuando se razona. Este segundo aspecto ha sido abordado tradicionalmente desde la perspectiva de las disposiciones (Facione, 1990); sin embargo, este enfoque manifiesta problemas, a nivel teórico y práctico, para explicar y desarrollar el pensamiento crítico. Ante ello, proponemos abordar el problema desde la perspectiva de la Motivación (Eccles y Wigfield, 2002). La presente investigación evalúa la conveniencia de optar por uno u otro para explicar el desempeño del pensamiento crítico tanto a nivel teórico como en su capacidad predictiva. Se analizaron teóricamente las fortalezas y debilidades de ambas perspectivas y se contrastaron medidas de disposiciones (CCTDI), motivación (EMPC) y pensamiento crítico (CCTST) en una muestra de universitarios españoles. Los resultados muestran que la variabilidad en el desempeño del pensamiento crítico es explicada de mejor manera por la motivación que por las disposiciones. Por último, se discuten la conveniencia teórica y práctica (intervención educacional) de estas aproximaciones. 2014-10-15 2021-06-03T03:04:50Z 2021-06-03T03:04:50Z info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion https://redie.uabc.mx/index.php/redie/article/view/519 https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12930/6120 spa https://redie.uabc.mx/index.php/redie/article/view/519/956 https://redie.uabc.mx/index.php/redie/article/view/519/978 Derechos de autor 2019 Revista Electrónica de Investigación Educativa text/html application/pdf REDIE es una publicación del Instituto de Investigación y Desarrollo Educativo (IIDE). Revista Electrónica de Investigación Educativa; Vol. 16 No. 3 (2014) Revista Electrónica de Investigación Educativa; Vol. 16 Núm. 3 (2014) 1607-4041
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topic	Motivation Dispositions Critical thinking Motivación Disposiciones Pensamiento crítico
spellingShingle	Motivation Dispositions Critical thinking Motivación Disposiciones Pensamiento crítico Valenzuela, Jorge Nieto, Ana María Muñoz, Carla Motivation and Dispositions: Alternative Approaches to Explain the Performance of Critical Thinking Skills
description	Critical thinking depends on the mastery degrees of some skills and on the will to activate them when reasoning. Traditionally, this second aspect has been focused from a disposition approach (Facione, 1990). However, this perspective demonstrates problems in theoretical as in practical level to explain and to develop critical thinking. For this, it is proposed to approach the problem from the Motivation perspective (Eccles and Wigfield, 2002). In this context, our research deals with the evaluation of the convenience to choose one perspective or another to explain the performance of critical thinking, both theoretically and in its predictive capacity. Thus, along with theoretically analyze the strengths and weaknesses of both approaches and it was compared measures of dispositions (CCTDI), motivation (EMPC) and critical thinking (CCTST) in a sample of Spanish university students. The results show that the variability in critical thinking performance is better explained by the motivation than by dispositional approach. Finally, the theoretical and practical convenience of motivational approach in this matter is discussed.
format	info:eu-repo/semantics/article
author	Valenzuela, Jorge Nieto, Ana María Muñoz, Carla
author_facet	Valenzuela, Jorge Nieto, Ana María Muñoz, Carla
author_sort	Valenzuela, Jorge
title	Motivation and Dispositions: Alternative Approaches to Explain the Performance of Critical Thinking Skills
title_short	Motivation and Dispositions: Alternative Approaches to Explain the Performance of Critical Thinking Skills
title_full	Motivation and Dispositions: Alternative Approaches to Explain the Performance of Critical Thinking Skills
title_fullStr	Motivation and Dispositions: Alternative Approaches to Explain the Performance of Critical Thinking Skills
title_full_unstemmed	Motivation and Dispositions: Alternative Approaches to Explain the Performance of Critical Thinking Skills
title_sort	motivation and dispositions: alternative approaches to explain the performance of critical thinking skills
publisher	REDIE es una publicación del Instituto de Investigación y Desarrollo Educativo (IIDE).
publishDate	2014
url	https://redie.uabc.mx/index.php/redie/article/view/519
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