Effectiveness of Teaching through Brainstorming on the Students Critical Thinking and Motivation

Among the most important goals of modern systems of education is teaching individuals to be ableto easily overcome the issues and problems in daily life and in social settings. In this context, thestudents’ motivation and critical thinking are the factors affecting the students’ life and future. Inthis respect, the aim of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of teaching through brainstormingon critical thinking and academic motivation of boy students in fifth grade of elementary school inBandar Abbas. The study is a semi-experimental study and pretest - posttest with control group isapplied. The study population consists of all students in fifth grade at District 1 of Bandar Abbascity. Using cluster sampling method, the sample, including 150 fifth grade students, is selected. Thestudy instruments include Ricketts Critical Thinking Questionnaire and Valrand Academic MotivationQuestionnaire. Intervention sessions are run for ten 60-minute sessions for students. After datacollection and to control the effect of pre-test on the post-test, covariance analysis and multivariatevariance analysis are used and the results are analyzed by SPSS statistical software. Researchfindings indicate a significant difference between critical thinking scores (Sig. < 0.001) and academicmotivation (Sig. < 0.001) in the experimental group. In other words, teaching through brainstormingimpacts on critical thinking and motivation of elementary school students in fifth grade.

Keywords:

Students , Brainstorming , Critical Thinking , Academic Motivation