Critical Thinking Disposition Analysis

According to Ennis (1962), he define thinking disposition is a tendency to do something given certain conditions. Thinking dispositions are tendencies toward particular patterns of intellectual behavior. Furthermore it is an effort to further identify the nature of these patterns of thinking, several scholars and educators have proposed more precise definitions.
In this regard Stephen Norris (1994) defines a thinking disposition as a tendency to think in a certain way under certain circumstances. In Norris' view, a thinking disposition is not simply a desire or predilection to thinking critically. He stated that individuals must either have formed habits to use certain abilities, or overtly think and chose to use the abilities they possess.

Most of the above definitions follow the everyday usage of the term disposition, which contrasts with the notion of ability. Thus, as Norris suggests that one can have an ability to do something - for example, the ability to seek balanced reasons in an argument - but not be disposed to do so. Following this everyday usage, one can say that good critical thinkers have critical thinking abilities and critical thinking dispositions. In other words, the critical thinker who seeks balanced reasons in an argument has both the ability and the disposition to do so. In a departure from this everyday usage, David Perkins, Eileen Jay and Shari Tishman have put forth what they call a "triadic conception of thinking dispositions," which includes the concept of

The study used survey model and the participants were randomly selected from their strata which the study group consisted of 1106 out of a total of 2932 pre-service teachers. And the study a finding was the pre-service teacher is low at thinking disposition. The another study conducted about critical thinking disposition is the Chinese new national chemistry curriculum standard in the year of 2003, the study was investigate whether using the task based learning can develop students critical thinking disposition in chemistry experiment teaching, and the use a method of pre-test and post-test experimental design with an experimental class and a control class. The subject sample in this study was 121 students ages ranged from 17 to 19 years old. And the findings of the study are that using the task based learning in chemistry experimental teaching could enhance the truth seeking of