Abstract
Study Title : Efficiency of Group Counseling Programme on the Development of Critical
Thinking Practice on the Students of Department of Psychology, University of Khartoum .
Name of Student : Tahani Hashim Khalil Abdeen .
This study aimed to investigate the efficiency of a group counseling programme on the
development of critical thinking practice on the students of Department of Psychology,
University of Khartoum. The experimental method of two related groups was used with preand
post-Test. A stratified random sample of )30( students was selected from the Department
of Psychology who are full time students for the academic year 2012 - 2013 . The sample
percentage was 6.06% of the total of 495 students. The tools of the study comprised the group
counseling programme , the critical thinking test, Feedback form, fact questions form, and
Raven's progressive matrices test (standardized in Sudan by Khateeb and Motwakil (2001) ) .
Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) was used to analyse data obtained by
applying: T-test, Pearson and Spearman correlation coefficients, and Alpha-Cronbach. The
most important results of the Study were that: there were significant differences -at the 0.05
level- between the Students of Department of Psychology, University of Khartoum on the preand
post- critical thinking test in favor of post- test. There were no significant differences on
the efficiency of the group counseling programme attributed to students’ gender (male,
female) or to the place of birth and rearing (rural, urban). There was no significant correlation
between the efficiency of the counseling programme and the academic level (level two, level
three, level four). There was a significant positive correlation between the efficiency of the
counseling programme and the students’ intelligence. The study provided a number of
recommendations and proposals, the most important recommendation was applying of the
Group Counseling Programme to develop critical thinking practice as an admission
requirements for new students in the Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts, University
of Khartoum .
Study Title : Efficiency of Group Counseling Programme on the Development of Critical
Thinking Practice on the Students of Department of Psychology, University of Khartoum .
Name of Student : Tahani Hashim Khalil Abdeen .
This study aimed to investigate the efficiency of a group counseling programme on the
development of critical thinking practice on the students of Department of Psychology,
University of Khartoum. The experimental method of two related groups was used with preand
post-Test. A stratified random sample of )30( students was selected from the Department
of Psychology who are full time students for the academic year 2012 - 2013 . The sample
percentage was 6.06% of the total of 495 students. The tools of the study comprised the group
counseling programme , the critical thinking test, Feedback form, fact questions form, and
Raven's progressive matrices test (standardized in Sudan by Khateeb and Motwakil (2001) ) .
Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) was used to analyse data obtained by
applying: T-test, Pearson and Spearman correlation coefficients, and Alpha-Cronbach. The
most important results of the Study were that: there were significant differences -at the 0.05
level- between the Students of Department of Psychology, University of Khartoum on the preand
post- critical thinking test in favor of post- test. There were no significant differences on
the efficiency of the group counseling programme attributed to students’ gender (male,
female) or to the place of birth and rearing (rural, urban). There was no significant correlation
between the efficiency of the counseling programme and the academic level (level two, level
three, level four). There was a significant positive correlation between the efficiency of the
counseling programme and the students’ intelligence. The study provided a number of
recommendations and proposals, the most important recommendation was applying of the
Group Counseling Programme to develop critical thinking practice as an admission
requirements for new students in the Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts, University
of Khartoum .