The Effect of Research-Based Teaching Method on Critical Thinking of Students of Master Degree in Educational Planning at Azad University of Sari

The main goal of this research is to study the effects of the research-oriented teaching method on critical thinking of graduated students in educational planning at sari-based Islamic Azad University. The present survey is semi experimental in term of data collection and applied in term of the goal. The statistical community includes all educational planning graduated students of Sari-based Islamic Azad University as 210 ones. The sampling method is simple random. In the present study, the standard test questionnaire of California Form B critical thinking skills (CCTST-B)(1990) (1990)have been employed. In order to determine the content and formal validity, the study questionnaires have been presented to some field-related exports, masters, guides and advisors to be reviewed that all of them confirmed the questionnaires’ validity to be used for the study. To further guarantee their reliability, 30 questionnaires have been executed before the final run randomly and their alpha-Cronbach has been estimated at 0.78 level. It should be noted that the course of advanced teaching method in the weekly program of Azad University of Sari was held one day a week and Wednesdays. In the first session, the implementation of critical thinking questionnaire Form B and Comic creativity was completed as a pre-test in both experimental and control classes. During the implementation period, the teaching-driven teaching with emphasis on the use of the teaching method of exploration as an independent variable, the researcher was fully associated with the professor and was present in the test class and when faced with the problem, he provided the necessary guidance, then at the end of the eighth session, the same questionnaires were completed as a post-test in both experimental and control classes. Research-based teaching has influenced the variable "critical thinking". Also, teaching-driven research among critical thinking components (interpretive skills, assessment skills, inferential skills, deductive skills, and inductive skills) did not only affect the component of interpretive skills and affected other components.