Effective Open-Minded Thinking Among College Engineering Students

Abstract

The current research aims to identify the active open-minded thinking among the students of the College of Engineering and to know the significance of the differences in the effective open-minded thinking among the students of the College of Engineering according to the gender variables (males - females) and the academic grade, and the research sample consisted of (400) male and female students from the College of Engineering at the University of Thi-Qar for the year (2021-2022) and they were chosen by the random stratified method with a proportional distribution. (29) items, and the validity and reliability of the scale items were calculated. The researchers used statistical methods, which are (one-sample t-test - two independent samples t-test - Pearson correlation coefficient - one-way analysis of variance) and the most prominent results were as follows: 1- The students of the College of Engineering enjoyed open-mindedness Effective. 2- There is a difference in active open-minded thinking according to the gender variable and in favor of females. 3- While there is a statistically significant difference in effective open-minded thinking according to the academic grade and in favor of the third and fourth grades.