Thinking Styles of Freshman and Senior Students at Taibah University

This study aimed at determining the favorite thinking styles of Taibah University students (males & females). The study was carried out on a sample of students from Taibah University. Subjects were 1296 from Faculties of Science (442) males and (257) females;; Education (335) males and (156) females; and Al-Daawah (106) males; during the second semester in 1424H. The researcher used the Thinking Styles Inventory (Short Version) prepared by Sternberg and translated into Arabic by Al-Darderee and Al-Taib for measuring the thirteen thinking styles, Factor analysis, coefficients of correlation and analysis of variance were used- Results were: 1. Taibah University female students significantly (at level 0.05) outperformed male students in regard to these thinking styles: legislative, executive, hierarchical, monarchic, oligarchic, internal, and external. 2. The Faculty of Science students significantly (at level 0.05) outperformed the Faculty of Education students (males & females) in regard to these thinking styles: legislative, executive, judicial, local, liberal, conservative, hierarchical, monarchic, oligarchic, anarchic, and external. 3. Students from the Faculty of Al-daawah significantly outperformed students of the Faculty of Education in regard to the judicial style of thinking. 4. The freshman students (males & females) significantly outperformed the senior students in regard to these thinking styles: legislative, local, monarchic, conservative, oligarchic, and anarchic