Resumen:
Critical thinking is a skill that can be divided in the two basic components of inquiry and argumentation. Inquiry involves seeking and selecting relevant information, while argumentation involves justifying one’s conclusions. This study aims to relate the internet searching strategies higher education students use to the quality of their argumentative texts. Our specific objectives are 1) to describe the Internet searching strategies that participants use to support the elaboration of their texts, 2) to elaborate a rubric to assess the quality of their argumentative texts, 3) to describe the quality of their argumentative texts, and 4) to relate the quality of their argumentative texts with their Internet use. We have carried out a descriptive mix method study collecting written argumentative texts of 107 participants about the illegalization of abortion, in which they were allowed to consult any Internet source, and an open questionnaire about the search and selection of Internet sources to elaborate the text. For data analysis, we elaborated a rubric to assess the quality of the texts using intra-class correlations for inter-rater reliability, and we performed quantitative descriptive analysis...