Questioning Instruction on Critical Thinking and its Skills in Social Science Course in the First Grade High School Girl Students

The main aim of this research was to compare the questioning instructional technique and method effectiveness on critical thinking and its skills in social science course in first grade high school girl students in Hamadan. The research method was semi-experimental with a pretest- posttest with control group design. A sample selected by multistage cluster sampling form two high schools of Hamadan by considering the class as the sampling unit and replaced in 3 groups (two experimental groups and one control) randomly. California critical thinking test (from B) was used for data collection. Multivariable analysis covariance was used for analyzing the data. The results showed that students in both experimental groups had better performance in critical thinking than the control group. While the questioning method group was better in critical thinking than the questioning technique group, In addition, comparing the efficacy of these two methods on the average of scores for critical thinking skills, there was no significant difference for the effect questioning method on the scores of skills of analysis, inference, induction and deduction compared with question technique. There was only a significant difference in assessment subscale.