Cecile V. Benitez, Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 1-11, Sep. 2019
10.22662/IJEMR.2019.3.3.001, Full Text:
Keywords: Assumption, Analysis, Critical thinking, Hospitality, Inference, Deduction, Interpretation, Tourism

Abstract

Background/Objectives: The main objective of the study is assess hospitality and tourism students’ ability to logically analyze assumptions, arguments, deductions, inferences, and interpret information in various scenarios related to their hospitality and tourism. Methods/Statistical analysis: The survey data were encoded using Excel and based on the study’s coding standards. IBM SPSS Statistics version 21.0 was utilized to transform some variables, compute statistics, and generate charts and tables. SPSS functions such as compare means, correlate, linear regression, graphs were used produce the required statistics and for the analyses. Findings: The study concluded that among the various critical thinking indicators, Inference, Interpretation, and Argument are positively moderate to strongly associated with the students’ total scores. Self-Rating association with critical thinking did not establish strong correlation. On the basis of Course, analysis of variance showed that critical scores were differentiated excepting the variable Inference. Improvements/Applications: Total scores indicated differences given the different Year Level. BSTM students showed a higher critical thinking scores in almost all indicators except Deductions.

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