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Peer reviewedBailin, Sharon – Science and Education, 2002
Examines some of the misconceptions about the nature of critical thinking. Focuses on the characterization of critical thinking in terms of processes or skills and the separation of critical thinking and knowledge. Offers a different conception of critical thinking. (Contains 46 references.) (DDR)
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, Critical Thinking, Curriculum Development, Educational Change
Peer reviewedLarochelle, Marie; Desautels, Jacques – International Journal of Science Education, 1991
Identifies the unsophisticated assumptions and conjectures, both intuitive and empirical in character, underlying secondary school science students' (n=25) portrayal of scientific knowledge and its production. Structured interview protocols explored not only the students' substantive knowledge base but, perhaps more important, their ability to…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Concept Formation, Foreign Countries, Interviews
