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Background
Logical thinking is a mental process that helps individuals create sensible solutions and is associated with their academic performance. Although it is crucial in many fields like science and engineering, we have not found any papers on logical thinking in Syrian Medicine college students.
Methods
This study administered the TOLT11
TOLT: Test Of Logical Thinking.
to assess logical thinking for medicine college students at Al Baath University. The sample was 188 participants from different years (N = 188). We analyzed the data using Python (a programming language).
Results
This study found that college courses and materials do not contribute to developing logical thinking abilities for Medical college's students at Al Baath University over the program years, where the sixth and last year scored the lowest Mean among all years. Most of the participants had better logical thinking at secondary school than now at college. Males scored higher Mean than females at TOLT.
Conclusion
This study expects no development of students' logical thinking in medical college at Al Baath University in all academic years. It suggests developing college courses and materials to enhance students' logical thinking abilities for their importance in clinical careers.