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Lickteig, Stacy L. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
One of the goals of education is for students to develop critical thinking skills. In order to build those skills, students must become critical and engaged users of information. Students become engaged and critical users of information when they have opportunities to explore and immerse themselves in information from different viewpoints and…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Skill Development, Discourse Analysis, Locus of Control
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Stroessner, Steven J.; Beckerman, Laurie Susser; Whittaker, Alexis – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2009
Reacting to the Past is a pedagogy involving collaborative role playing in history-based games over a semester. This article presents results from a systematic assessment of this novel pedagogy conducted in 3 phases following student focus group interviews. Interviews indicated that the method was generally popular compared with traditional…
Descriptors: Role Playing, Undergraduate Students, Teaching Methods, Writing Skills