Methodology Various methods were used during the research: theoretical (analysis, synthesis, classification,
generalization, deduction, induction, analogies,
modeling); empirical (observation, survey,
questionnaire, interviewing, conversation);
experimental (experiment-ascertaining, forming,
diagnostic), statistical (statistical data processing,
qualitative and quantitative analysis of research
results).
The hypothesis of the research was the assumption
that if professional training of future specialists
is organized using interactive teaching methods
aimed at developing their critical thinking and
considering identified features in the conditions
of working in a team, it can help to increase
the level of critical thinking of students in the
educational process of the University.
The scientific novelty of the research consists in
finding a solution to the problem under study
through the development, scientific justification
and experimental verification of a set of interactive
teaching methods aimed at developing students’
critical thinking within the educational process
of the University, based on the identified features
in the conditions of working in a team.
The theoretical significance of the research lies in
the fact that the analysis of the problems of critical
thinking of students in the educational process of
the University; based on the analysis summarizes
the characteristics of the concept of «critical
thinking skills», developed and scientifically
substantiated range of interactive teaching
methods in terms of teamwork of students aimed
at the development of critical thinking.
The practical significance of the research is that
the methodological support for a complex of
interactive teaching methods in the conditions
of teamwork of students aimed at developing
critical thinking has been developed.
We conducted experimental work with
students of the specialty «Training of future
teachers of Physics», «Social pedagogy» of the L.
N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University and
Sh. Ualikhanov Kokshetau State University. The
reliability of the results obtained was ensured
by using a set of methods that correspond to
the subject of the study and the tasks set, and by
combining qualitative and quantitative analysis
of the results.