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Critical thinking, one of the most important concepts of the 21st century, involves analyzing concepts, generating ideas and organizing them, defending perspectives, making comparisons, making inferences, evaluating discussions, and problem-solving skills (Browne and Keeley, 2007; Pithers and Soden, 2000). To engage in critical reading (CR), according to a different definition, is to read bearing in mind that there may be alternative explanations, rather than making a conclusion based on the information read (Akın et al., 2015). Paul (1992) defined critical thinking as reaching a conclusion based on observation and information. Critical thinking is related to the high-level thinking skills requiring analysis, synthesis, and evaluation, rather than low-level thinking skills associated with knowledge, comprehension, and application in Bloom’s taxonomy (Cottrell, 2011; Dam and Volman, 2004; Ennis, 1985). Although critical thinking is not the basic aim of education, it is closely related to what is taught and learned in a teaching environment. It has a field of interest covering the curriculum’s purposes, textbooks, assessment, and personal development. The most important condition for developing critical thinking in individuals from a young age is to provide learning environments where they can express and discuss their ideas, question information, and produce more than one alternative interpretation in real life. This is because students’ thinking skills are not expected to develop unless they are offered something on which they can think; in other words, unless they are occupied with meaningful and rich lessons (Brown, 1997). To provide an education in which students learn how to think and produce effective solutions to problems, it is necessary to consider critical thinking as a skill and to adopt an interdisciplinary approach. In addition, one of the topics given significant emphasis in many areas of reform in education and areas requiring reform is highlevel thinking skills (Halpern, 1998). Critical thinking is one of the high level skills. It is thought that research on how to develop critical thinking skills in individuals would contribute to reform movements in education.

The Use of Critical Reading in Understanding Scientific Texts on Academic Performance and Problem-solving Skills