Designing and implementing a radical thinking assessment for students at the University of Mosul

Research Purpose: Measuring radical thinking among university students.
Objective: To reveal the level of radical thinking among students at the University of Mosul.
Methodological: This study used the descriptive approach on a stratified random sample of 400 students in the second year and different disciplines for the academic year (2023-2024). The researchers designed a test to measure radical thinking and extracted the psychometric properties of the test (Validity and Reliability).
Results: The results indicated that the student's scores on the Radical Thinking Test were high. The arithmetic mean of the research sample in the test was 103 with a standard deviation of 3.17. When compared to the test default average of 80, it became clear that the arithmetic mean was higher and that the calculated t-value was 59.79, exceeding the tabular t-value of 1.96 at a significance level of 5% with 399 degrees of freedom.
Implications: The study highlights the impact of negative thought patterns on students' academic and social life and the need to develop positive thinking skills to counter these negative patterns.