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Niu, Lian; Behar-Horenstein, Linda S.; Garvan, Cyndi W. – Educational Research Review, 2013
Promoting students' critical thinking skills is an important task of higher education. Colleges and universities have designed various instructional interventions to enhance students' critical thinking skills. Empirical studies have yielded inconsistent results in terms of the effects of such interventions. This meta-analysis presents a synthesis…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Critical Thinking, Effect Size, Intellectual Disciplines
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van Gennip, Nanine A. E.; Segers, Mien S. R.; Tillema, Harm H. – Educational Research Review, 2009
This paper reports a systematic literature review examining empirical studies on the effects of peer assessment for learning. Peer assessment is fundamentally a social process whose core activity is feedback given to and received from others, aimed at enhancing the performance of each individual group member and/or the group as a whole. This makes…
Descriptors: Literature Reviews, Synthesis, Research Design, Experiments