The impact of Scamper and baron's techniques on the development of English Language critical thinking skills : applied study on 10th grade students

Abstract EN

This study aims at identifying the impact of SCAMPER and Baron `s models on the development of English Language critical thinking.

The sample consisted of (112) of the 10th grader's students at Asma Bent Abi Baker secondary school (ABAB) in the first educational directorate of Amman, the capital.

The current study used the semi-experimental method to apply both models on two experimental groups and one control group.

The study instruments developed according to SCAMPER, teaching thinking model , to be applied on the first experimental group of (36) students ; and Baron , good thinker model , to be applied on the second experimental groups of (38) students ; whilst the control group of (38) students taught by the conventional teaching method .All experiments separately conducted using the designed critical thinking skills, test, which evaluates the English language skills of (interpretation, inference and deduction) against the SCAMPER and Baron `s techniques based on the content of the first two units in the first term of 10th grader's English curriculum .

The results showed that there are slight statistically significant differences between the experimental groups, SCAMPER's group and Baron `s, in favor of SCAMPER; however, there was a considerable significant difference when compared with the control group.

This ensures the effectiveness of applying both models on developing critical thinking skills among 10th students with the superiority of the SCAMPER model.

Finally, the current study recommends conducting future studies to investigate the impact of SCAMPER and Baron techniques