The Effect of the Accompanying Enrichment Activities on Improving Critical Thinking Skills and Academic Achievement of A sample of Students at Abu Dhabi University

Abstract

The current study sought to identify the effectiveness of the accompanying enrichment activities in improving critical thinking skills and academic achievement for (45) students at Abu Dhabi University. The study depended on the quasi experimental approach as well as the pre-post applications of tools to the same groups. An achievement test was constructed to measure the academic achievement and included three skills as follows: knowledge, comprehension and remembering, in addition to a critical thinking scale and the accompanying enrichment activities thereof. study findings indicated that there were statistically significant differences between the pre– application and post - application of the three achievement test skills (knowledge, comprehension and remembering) in favor of the post application, in addition to that there were statistically significant differences between the pre– application and post - application on the critical thinking scale in favor of the post – application.