标题：THE CORRELATION BETWEEN CRITICAL THINKING DISPOSITION AND INTERNAL-EXTERNAL LOCUS OF CONTROL OF CANDIDATE STUDENTS WHO PARTICIPATED IN SPECIAL TALENT EXAMINATION IN SCHOOL OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND SPORTS EGE UNIVERSITY
期刊名称：Ovidius University Annals, Series Physical Education and Sport/Science, Movement and Health
印刷版ISSN：1224-7359
出版年度：2014
卷号：14
期号：1
页码：332-337
语种：English
出版社：Ovidius University Press
摘要：The aim of this study was to investigate the critical thinking disposition levels and the locus of control in terms of the gender,high school type and doing regular sports among the candidate PE students who participated in special talent examination in physical education and to determine the correlation between the critical thinking disposition and the internal-external locus of control.Methods.The population of the study was 526 candidate PE students who participated in special talent examination of School of Physical Education and Sports,Ege University during 2010-2011 academic year.Sample of the study were 356 candidate PE students (119 female students and 237 male students) who were recruited using random sampling method.As the data collection tools;California Critical Thinking Disposition Scale (CCTDI)adapted into Turkish by Kökdemir (2003) and Rotter’s Internal-External Locus of Control Scale developed by Rotter (1966) andadapted into Turkish by Dağ (1991) and a personal information form were used.Results.It was found that there was significant difference in critical thinking disposition of the candidate students according to the high school type.In addition,internal-external locus of control of the candidate students were found significantly to be different in gender variable.It was seen that there was a significantly negative correlation between critical thinking disposition and internal-external locus of control of the candidate students (r=-.144,p=.007;p<.05).As a conclusion it is important to instill students critical thinking ability against problems of school life and daily life as well as to teach them the belief that control over future outcomes depends mainly on them.Moreover;the study can be conducted with different samples.
关键词：Internal-external locus of control;critical thinking and critical thinking disposition;special talent examination.
