Case Study: Effect of the Critical Thinking Approaches to Teaching and Learning in Secondary Schools of Bahrain

Summary

An experimental study is described in which a comparison was made between groups of Bahraini secondary school teachers and students of English. The study considers benefits from approaches developed by the researcher, with a view to training the teachers on critical thinking approaches. The use of critical thinking produces significant gains in learning when compared with conventional teaching that does not use critical thinking approaches. These differences are also seen in the attainment of analysis and synthesis skills (higher order cognitive skills), for example, critical thinking such as case‐study. The significance of these results is discussed in terms of designing new techniques in learning and teaching processes, and of the students’ performance in the classroom.