Teaching Thinking and Research Course on Learning and Scholarship Spirit of Students

The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of teaching Thinking and Research course on learning and scholarship spirit of students in the sixth grade of elementary school in District 6 in Isfahan. The study is quasi-experimental. The statistical population of the study consisted of all students in the sixth grade of elementary schools in District 6 in Isfahan. The sample consisted of 40 patients determined through multi-stage cluster sampling. The data collection tools in this study are the Learning standard questionnaire of Weitzman (1990) and scholarship spirit Inventory of Farashbandi (2016) with a reliability of 0.82 and 0.85 respectively. One-way and two-way (ANCOVA) analysis of covariance and a two-variable two-way analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) were used to analyze the hypotheses. The results suggest that teaching Thinking and Research course causes the promotion of learning in the experimental group compared with the control group. Teaching Thinking and Research course promotes the scholarship spirit in the experimental group compared with the control group. There was a significant difference between the experimental group and control group according to their gender