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Cho, Kit W. – Teaching of Psychology, 2022
Background: Psychological misconceptions permeate our culture, with many people endorsing these erroneous beliefs. Objective: The purpose of this study was to replicate and extend previous findings that reported psychology knowledge and cognitive thinking style predict undergraduates' beliefs in psychological misconceptions. Method: Two hundred…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Psychology, Misconceptions, Course Selection (Students)
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Erdogan, Fatma – Participatory Educational Research, 2020
The aim of this study was to analyze the relationship between critical thinking skills and reflective thinking skills of prospective middle school mathematics teachers. In addition, it was aimed to examine critical thinking skills and reflective thinking skills of prospective middle school mathematics teachers with regard to some variables…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Middle School Teachers, Mathematics Teachers
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Ghanizadeh, Afsaneh – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2017
The present study assessed the associations among higher-order thinking skills (reflective thinking, critical thinking) and self-monitoring that contribute to academic achievement among university students. The sample consisted of 196 Iranian university students (mean age = 22.05, SD = 3.06; 112 females; 75 males) who were administered three…
Descriptors: Interaction, Reflection, Critical Thinking, Self Management
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Godfrey, Erin B.; Burson, Esther L.; Yanisch, Tess M.; Hughes, Diane; Way, Niobe – Developmental Psychology, 2019
An increasing body of research on critical consciousness explores how youth understand and react to inequality in their social contexts. The operationalization of critical consciousness remains inchoate, however. Developmental psychology traditionally conceptualizes critical consciousness as three components (critical reflection, political…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Reflection, Mental Health, Well Being
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Pascarella, Ernest T.; Blaich, Charles – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2013
Funded by the Center of Inquiry in the Liberal Arts (CILA) at Wabash College, the Wabash National Study of Liberal Arts Education (WNS) is a multi-institution, multi-year, longitudinal study designed to identify the academic and non-academic collegiate experiences that foster liberal learning. This article describes how the study was done and…
Descriptors: Student Surveys, Longitudinal Studies, Liberal Arts, Student Evaluation
Zelizer, Deborah A. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This quasi-experimental, nonequivalent control group study compared the impact of Ennis's (1989) mixed instructional methodology to the immersion methodology on the development of critical thinking in a multicultural, undergraduate senior-year learning community. A convenience sample of students (n =171) were selected from four sections of a…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Teaching Methods, College Seniors, Communities of Practice
Alschuler, Mari L. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The purpose of this study was to investigate the associations between teaching perspectives (TPs), faculty usage and perceptions of reflective journaling (RJ), and demographic characteristics among clinical faculty in nursing, social work, and counseling. A combination of causal-comparative and correlational designs was utilized, with stratified…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Journal Writing, Reflection, Teacher Characteristics
International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2012
The IADIS CELDA 2012 Conference intention was to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There had been advances in both cognitive psychology and computing that have affected the educational arena. The convergence of these two disciplines is increasing at a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Academic Support Services, Access to Computers