The Effects of Podcasting on Vocational School Students' Critical Thinking Dispositions for a Mathematics Course

This study investigated the effects of podcasting on vocational school students' critical thinking dispositions. The research was carried out on 84 students of Erzurum Vocational College during the spring semester of 2015- 2016 academic year. The "one-group pre-test post-test design" was taken as the research model. Data were collected by employing a Turkish version of the "California Critical Thinking Dispositions Inventory" (CCTDI). The Turkish version of the CCTDI consists of 51 items with 6 subscales: open-mindedness, inquisitiveness, systematicity, truth-seeking, analyticity, and self-confidence. Results indicated that the use of video podcast technology had a significant positive impact on vocational school student's critical thinking disposition. It was also found that the greatest increase occurred in the truth-seeking, analyticity and systematicity dimensions, respectively. On the other hand the lowest increase occurred in self confidence dimension. [This paper was published in: Murat Tas, Michael Schulte (Eds.), "International Conference on Humanities and Educational Research (March 23-26, 2017, Houston, Texas, USA) Conference Proceedings" (p.43-53).]