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Direct linkWilliams, Sheri S.; Jaramillo, Amy; Pesko, John Carl – Quarterly Review of Distance Education, 2015
This study explored what instructors can do to improve student depth of thinking in online discussion boards (DBs). Participants were graduate students enrolled in online courses within a college of education in the southwest United States. Measurement consisted of discourse analysis of posts in DBs and student self-assessment of dispositions,…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Computer Mediated Communication, Group Discussion, Graduate Students
Williamson, Peter K. – Thinking Skills and Creativity, 2011
Research, carried out mainly in the period between the 1960s and 1980s, reported significant differences in the thinking styles of science and arts students. At this time university and school teaching was highly specialised and concern was expressed in the ongoing "two cultures" debate (Snow, 1959).Considerable changes have taken place in the…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Cognitive Style, Problem Solving, Creative Thinking
Download full textSak, Ugur; Maker, C. June – International Education Journal, 2005
In this study we investigated relationships between convergent and divergent thinking with an emphasis on fluency, originality, flexibility and elaboration in the mathematical domain. A related purpose was to examine relationships between problem types in mathematical tasks. The math section of a performance-based assessment was used to assess 857…
Descriptors: Construct Validity, Validity, Creative Thinking, Convergent Thinking
