The Relationship between the Use of Information and Communication Technology with Critical Thinking and Creative Thinking among High School Students
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between the use of information and communication technology on critical thinking and creative thinking of high school students. The research method was descriptive correlation. The statistical population of the present study were all the students of the high school in Isfahan city in Iran, and they were 50707 people, Based on the Morgan and Krejci sample size formula, 382 individuals were randomly selected for research.The research tools include the Ritex standard critical thinking questionnaire (2003) with validity (0.67) and reliability (0.71) and Torrance creativity standard questionnaire with validity (r = 0.66) and reliability (0.78) and friendship information and communication technology standard questionnaire (2016) with face and content validity and reliability (0.75). In the inferential analysis of the research, first, the normality of the distribution of scores was checked by the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test, and statistical regression tests were also used. Statistical operations were performed in the environment of SPSS V. 25. The results of the present study showed that the use of information and communication technology has a significant relationship on critical thinking and creative thinking and their components, in the high school students of Isfahan. Based on this, it is suggested that the elements of the educational system use information and communication technology in an effective and principled manner in order to solve problems and develop high-level thinking skills.
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