Identification of critical thinking in second semester university students of the Caribbean University Corporation (CECAR)

Abstract

The research aims to analyze critical thinking in second semester university students of the Caribbean University Corporation (CECAR). A theoretical approach was made to the critical thinking construct and how various authors value it. The research is quantitative and descriptive, with an intentional sample of 100 students belonging to the programs of Sports Sciences, Engineering and Linguistics and Literature. The test Evaluation of Critical Contextualized Thinking (EP-2C) proposed by Carrasco (2018) is used. It consists of five variables and 26 reagents designed to measure the study variables: analysis, interpretation, evaluation, inference and explanation. The results show that the students are at the medium level of CP in which they are able to argue by getting slightly closer to the expected response. This indicates that strategies should be designed in enriched environments and didactic sequences that tend to strengthen the variables studied.