Pensamiento crítico y capacidad intelectual

Abstract

We live in a society in which people are subjected to an explosion of information, with the emergence of social problems, this justifies the need for a response from the world of education where there is a deep gap between the thinking of the schools and thinking required to make decisions in the real world.
In our research, we wanted to measure the intellectual capacity, and the different skills of critical thinking in students of 5th and 6th elemental education (induction, deduction, observation and assumptions) as well as to analyze a possible relationship between the intellectual capacity and the overall capacity of critical thinking. The sample consisted of 86 students and the instruments were the Test Badig E3• and the Cornell Test of critical thinking X. We found that there are significant differences in the overall capacity of critical thinking, within a threshold of intelligence, it is, we have not found significant differences between students with high IQ and students with average IQ, but there are significant differences between students with high IQ and students with low IQ, and there are significant differences between students with average IQ and students with low IQ.