A study on critical thinking standards in the "Sada Al-Hayat" educational group

Abstract

This study aims to understand how critical thinking criteria are utilised in Arabic language teaching books in the Islamic Republic of Iran and to produce statistical results that show the extent and distribution of these criteria in the textbooks. The researcher employed a descriptive-analytical method, selecting middle school books from the "Sada Al-Hayat" educational series as the study sample. The criteria of clarity and validity from critical thinking were chosen for application and discussion. After detailing how these criteria are distributed within the units and sections and analyzing examples through explanations, tables, and graphs, the study concluded that most sections of the middle school books incorporate the criteria of clarity and validity, accounting for 95.3% of all sections. The sections where these criteria were not applied constituted 4.7% of the total. This indicates that critical thinking has been effectively integrated into the four books at this educational level and that the critical thinking criteria are reasonably distributed across the sections and units