An Investigation of Secondary School Learners’ Critical Thinking Inclination

It is important to determine the critical thinking inclination of learners, who have an important place in the construction of societies, and to reveal the factors that are effective on their inclinations or that make a difference on behalf of both the present and the future. In this context, the aim of this study is to determine the critical thinking inclinations of secondary school learners and to examine these inclinations according to the variables of gender, age, academic achievement, mother and father education, number of books owned and read. The research was designed according to the survey design, which is one of the quantitative research methods, and the sample of the research consists of 529 children studying at the middle school level in the fall semester of the 2024-2025 academic year. “Personal Information Form” and “UF/EMI Critical Thinking Disposition Scale” were used to collect the data. The research data were analyzed with “SPSS 21.00 statistical program”. Since the data were normally distributed, parametric tests were used in statistical analysis. As a result of the research, it was determined that the critical thinking inclinations of middle school learners were at a medium level. In addition, it was determined that the critical thinking inclinations of the learners showed a statistically significant difference according to the variables of gender, age, academic achievement, father’s education, number of books owned and read, but mother’s education did not cause a significant difference.