{"id":947,"date":"2022-03-15T09:58:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-15T14:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.michelot.info\/education\/?p=947"},"modified":"2022-03-15T10:03:33","modified_gmt":"2022-03-15T15:03:33","slug":"article-heswbl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michelot.info\/education\/2022\/03\/15\/article-heswbl\/","title":{"rendered":"Article \u00ab A transnational comparative study of preservice teachers\u2019 critical thinking skills and metaliteracy self-efficacy \u00bb"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Purpose. <\/strong>While training students to new literacy and critical thinking has been recognized for several decades, it seems even more crucial today as education is presented as a lever to fight against fake news. Preservice teachers, both so-called digital natives at the cutting edge of the social web and tomorrow\u2019s educators, represent a useful object of study.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Methodology. <\/strong>Using a quantitative methodology, this article is part of sequential mixed design research aiming to describe the level of preservice teachers\u2019 (n = 245) critical thinking in three French-speaking nations: Wallonia, France, and Quebec. We aimed to see to what extent critical thinking skills (measured with a translated version of the Halpern Critical Thinking Assessment; Halpern, 2016) can notably be influenced by metaliteracy self-efficacy. Metaliteracy is a concept that aims to join information, digital, and media literacy providing a comprehensive framework \u201cfor engaging with individuals and ideas in digital environments\u201d (Mackey and Jacobson, 2011, p. 70).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Findings. <\/strong>We establish the influence of individual determinants such as the feelings of self-efficacy in metaliteracy as well as the belief in the likelihood of becoming a teacher. We propose a model predicting the critical thinking skills based on selfefficacy in critical thinking and metaliteracy, the type of training, and the interaction between employment and the country of study.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Originality. <\/strong>Considering contemporary information issues and infodemic phenomena, critical thinking skills should be developed among preservice teachers. There is a significant positive correlation between metaliteracy self-efficacy and critical thinking skills. Pre-service teachers\u2019 country of study, as well as their training trajectory, seems to influence their critical thinking skills. Involvement in professional life also appears to promote critical thinking skills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n