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Journal of Al-Quds Open University for Educational & Psychological Research & Studies

Journal of Al-Quds Open University for Educational & Psychological Research & Studies

Abstract

The research aims to know the level of the critical thinking skills amongthe social studies teachers in the basic education stage. The study is basedon a sample of (204) male and female teachers specialized in geographyand history forming (46.15%) of the community size. They have been chosenrandomly. In order to achieve the research aims, the California test of criticalthinking skills model (2000) was used after verification of its psychometricproperties. The research results showed that the sampled teachers own a levelof critical thinking skills that is below the educationally acceptable level setby the researcher which was limited by (80%). The research results did notfind statistically significant differences in the level of critical thinking skillsdue to the variables of gender and specialization.

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