TY  - JOUR
T1  - Investigation of the Relationship Between Secondary School Students' Critical Thinking Tendencies and Lifelong Learning Skills
AU  - Aydın, Hasan
AU  - Zebil, Meltem
AU  - Vural, Ömer Faruk
PY  - 2025
DA  - October
Y2  - 2025
DO  - 10.55236/tuara.1699612
JF  - The Universal Academic Research Journal
PB  - ULUSLARARASI EVRENSEL EĞİTİM AKADEMİK ARAŞTIRMA DERNEĞİ
WT  - DergiPark
SN  - 2717-9133
SP  - 193
EP  - 217
VL  - 7
IS  - 4
LA  - en
AB  - The aim of the study is to determine the interaction of lifelong learning skills and critical thinking tendencies of individuals in the second level of primary education. While the universe of the research consists of individuals in the second level of secondary school primary education affiliated to the Beykoz District Directorate of National Education in Istanbul Province; The sample consists of 400 students determined by simple random sampling method. In the study, firstly, literature review was made and similar studies were evaluated. In the study, relational survey model was applied by conducting quantitative research. With the necessary permissions, the 30-item "Lifelong Learning Scale" and the 21-item "Critical Thinking Tendency" scales were applied to the students. Cronbach's alpha value of the "Lifelong Learning Scale" was 0.871 and the data were evaluated with the Mann Whitney U test and the Kruskal Wallis test; Cronbach's Alpha value of the "Critical Thinking Tendency Scale" was .87 and the data were interpreted with ttesi and Anova. In line with the scale results, a strong positive relationship was found between lifelong learning skills and critical thinking tendencies, and this relationship was observed at a strong level especially between "Communication and Productivity" and "Dialectical Thinking". However, no significant and significant interaction was found between "Self-Confidence" and the sub-dimensions of critical thinking tendencies.
KW  - Lifelong learning skills
KW  - Critical thinking tendency
KW  - Middle school students
CR  - Zmigrod, L. (2022). A Psychology of ideology: Unpacking the psychological structure of ideological thinking. Perspectives on Psychological Science. 17, 1072–1092. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/17456916211044140
UR  - https://doi.org/10.55236/tuara.1699612
L1  - https://dergipark.org.tr/en/download/article-file/4871550
ER  -