Critical thinking and its influence on learning autonomy in secondary students

• Autor: Ramírez Chávez, Victoria Gregoria
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2021
• Institución: Instituto Internacional de Gobierno
• Repositorio: Igobernanza
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/121
• Enlace del recurso: https://www.igobernanza.org/index.php/IGOB/article/view/121
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Aprendizaje crítico; autonomía del aprendizaje; habilidades cognitivas; habilidades metacognitivas; habilidades afectivas; Critical learning; autonomy of learning; cognitive abilities; metacognitive abilities; affective abilities

The purpose of the research was to know the influence of critical thinking on the autonomy of learning in secondary school students from an educational institution in Peru. The research approach is quantitative with a non-experimental design. The sample consisted of 162 high school students from the GUE Mariscal Toribio de Luzuriaga educational institution, located in the city of Huaraz in the department of Ancash - Peru. For field work, the questionnaire was used for data collection. The main conclusion indicates that critical thinking significantly influences the autonomy of student learning.