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Article 1
The effect of critical thinking disposition on entrepreneurship levels: A
study on future teachers.
This article, “The effect of critical thinking disposition on entrepreneurship levels: A
study on future teachers has been presented by eminent scholars, Merve Kırbaşlara, Zeliha
Özsoy-Güneşb. The research background of the paper highly focuses on the importance of
entrepreneurs and their decision making skills which can be acquired by critical thinking
disposition on the entrepreneurship levels. According to the article, entrepreneurs have some
unique characteristics which not many people have like vision, persuasiveness, creativity, risk
taking behavior and many more however one of the most dynamic quality which they possess
is decision making skills (Kırbaşlar & Özsoy-Güneş, 2015). According to scholars, one of the
most important skills of an entrepreneur is decision making skills as it is important to make
fruitful decisions for a business and also to help during the time of crisis (Dhochak &
Sharma, 2016). In order to make fruitful decisions one needs to have critical thinking skills
and abilities (ŽivkoviL·, 2016). Research suggests that critical thinking skills can be achieved
with the help of proper monitoring and guidance (Makmur, Susilo & Indriwati, 2019). Thus,
it is important for a positive change in the current educational programs in order to foster
critical thinking skills among the teachers so that they can help future students to develop
critical thinking skills for their personal as well as professional development in the long run.
The aim of this research article is to understand the connection between critical
thinking dispositions and the entrepreneurship levels. The core research questions of this
paper are whether the levels of critical thinking disposition of the teachers are different when
it comes to different varieties like class, department, graduated schools and gender. The other

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question whether the teacher’s entrepreneurship levels are different based on different
varieties like class, department and gender and the other core question of this paper is that
whether critical thinking dispositions have a positive and a significant effect on the teacher’s
entrepreneurship level. The sample size of this article is 548 teachers from various different
departments of social studies, elementary school, science and mathematics. This article used
the relational scanning model and California Critical Thinking Disposition Inventory tool was
used in the data collection process. Wang et al, (2019) states CCTDI is considered to be one
of the most premier tools to conduct surveys on the dispositional factors of critical thinking.
This article according to me has more weaknesses as compared to the strengths. The
strengths of this paper is that it uses very clear and simple language which makes it easy for
people to understand. Heumader et al, (2016) states use of easy language in a research paper
helps in making the paper universal and palatable to a wide range of audience. The
hypothesis and the results are related and the paper uses a good sample size to make the paper
relevant. Sample size is important in a research paper as it helps in understanding the
authenticity of the paper (McNeish & Stapleton, 2016). However, the major weakness of the
paper is the absence of a conclusion. Curtis, Comiskey & Dempsey, (2016) states conclusion
in a research paper is important to summarize the entire paper and come to a conclusion. This
shows that the research paper has failed to conclude to anything making the paper
incomplete. The paper does not provide any limitations and scholars suggest that limitations
in a research paper are essential for placing the finding of the research in context and to
interpret the validity and the credibility level to the conclusion of the paper (Queirós, Faria &
Almeida, 2017). This questions the validity of the work. This paper seems to be vague despite
of the good sample and good quality research.
Critical thinking skills according to scholars can be achieved and this makes it
important for teachers to have these skills and help students in developing these skills (Duran

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& Dökme, 2016). Stewart, (2019) states not all children have the same thinking abilities and
skills and it is important to enhance education programs for teachers to ensure they are able to
help children acquire critical thinking skills. Thus it can be seen that many scholars state the
importance of developing critical thinking skills among the teacher candidates which is
necessary. This paper is significant as it established the connection between critical thinking
disposition and entrepreneur levels which can be used further in order to make a positive
change or come up with a new curriculum design for teaching candidates to help students
develop critical thinking skills for the future development.