Systematic Review Data on Critical Thinking Strategies in Latin American Primary Schools

A dataset containing the evaluation matrix and agreement data for a systematic review of pedagogical strategies for developing critical thinking in primary education across Latin America. The review analyzed 30 studies from seven countries published between 2015 and 2025, following the PRISMA 2020 protocol. It was authored by Fredy Leon and published on figshare under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Analyzing the distribution of research designs based on the reported predominance of qualitative studies (53%).
• Comparing the effectiveness of pedagogical strategy clusters like argumentation, Philosophy for Children, and STEM/STEAM.
• Assessing inter-observer reliability in study quality assessment based on the reported Cohen's kappa coefficient (κ = 0.69).
• Identifying research gaps in methodological rigor based on the review's conclusions about limited control groups and blind evaluation.

Strengths

• Includes data from 30 empirical studies across seven Latin American countries.
• Follows a structured, peer-reviewed methodology (PRISMA 2020 protocol) with reported inter-observer agreement (κ = 0.69).
• Covers a defined ten-year time range (2015 to 2025).

Limitations

• The dataset is very small (24.9 KB), indicating limited scope and detail.
• Row count and column-level documentation are unknown; field semantics must be inferred after download.

Provenance

Source

figshare

Collection Method

Systematic review conducted across five databases (Scopus, WoS, ERIC, SciELO, EBSCOhost) using the PICo framework.

Time Range

2015 to 2025

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-24 21:01:45; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Latin America (seven countries)