The effectiveness of Socratic questioning on critical thinking skills

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of critical thinking training using Socratic questions on critical thinking skills of psychology students of Islamic Azad university Ahvaz branch.The study sample included one class among all offered classes for under graduate students consisted of 44 students which were divided randomly into intervention and control groups.Pretest, post test control group design was used. After random selection of experimental and control groups, first for all two groups, pre test was performed, then the pilot intervention in 13 sessions of 90 minutes for the experimental group were presented and after the training program, post-test was taken for both groups. The students’ critical thinking skills were measured by Watson-Glaser Critical Thinking Appraisal (Form A). The reliability of test were measured with Kronbakh alfa method (α=0.75) and data was analyzed with Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA), in level of p