Brain Hemisphericity, Creative Thinking and Critical Thinking of Malaysian Science and Arts Students
The purposes of this study were: (1) to explore the nature of brain hemisphericity, creative thinking and critical thinking abilities of Malaysian students, (2) to compare brain hemisphericity, creative thinking and critical thinking abilities of the students in terms of academic major, gender an...
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2002
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| Online Access: | http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/9290/1/FPP_2002_15.pdf |
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| Summary: | The purposes of this study were: (1) to explore the nature of brain
hemisphericity, creative thinking and critical thinking abilities of Malaysian
students, (2) to compare brain hemisphericity, creative thinking and critical
thinking abilities of the students in terms of academic major, gender and
ethnicity variables, and (3) to ascertain the relationships between brain
hemisphericity and creative thinking; and between brain hemisphericity and
critical thinking . The subject of this study consisted of 216 form-six students
(109 science major and 107 arts major) from twenty-seven secondary schools
of the state of Selangor. Three instruments were used to appraise brain
hemisphericity, creative thinking and critical thinking. The instruments were
Your Styles of Learning and Thinking. Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking and
Watson-Glaser Critical Thinking Appraisal. The results demonstrated that the majority of the students were right
hemisphere dominants, and they preferred to use only one of their
hemispheres in learning and thinking (right hemisphere 54.6%, left
hemisphere 36.6%, and whole brain 8.8%).
Descriptive analysis o n creative thinking abilities indicated that the students
were relatively fluent in producing ideas, and the ideas they created were likely
to be original. However, they have less ability to evaluate and elaborate the
ideas creatively, and tend to leap to the conclusions about the ideas they
create prematurely. |
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