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Gwo-Jen Hwang; Ching-Yi Chang – Interactive Learning Environments, 2024
In professional healthcare training programs, field experience after physical courses is essential for students to become professionals. However, the outbreak of the pandemic has restricted such field experience, and so students' problem-solving awareness when facing clinical emergencies in a professional field after graduation has become a…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Academic Achievement, Sense of Community, Thinking Skills
Edlund, John E. – Teaching of Psychology, 2020
Improving student performance on exams is a key issue that many psychology instructors face in their classrooms. One potentially easy to deploy option for improving student performance is an exam wrapper. In this article, I detail two studies that compared exam wrappers to a control condition (a previous semester in Study 1 and a within course…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Evaluation, Tests, Social Psychology
Wicaksana, Yoga Dwija; Widoretno, Sri; Dwiastuti, Sri – International Journal of Instruction, 2020
This study aimed to determine the effectiveness of critical thinking aspects on the module to enhance students' academic achievement of human circulatory system. Research participants were 8th grade of junior high school students, which assigned into experimental and control groups (each group consists of 27 students) based on One-Way ANOVA result…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Academic Achievement, Human Body, Instructional Effectiveness
Muskita, Marikke; Subali, Bambang; Djukri – International Journal of Instruction, 2020
The purpose of this study is (1) examining the effectiveness of worksheets based the three levels of inquiry in improving the critical and creative thinking skills of biology education students, (2) analyze implementation worksheets are based on the three levels of inquiry. The research was quasi-experimental: pre-test post-test non-equivalent…
Descriptors: Worksheets, Inquiry, Critical Thinking, Creative Thinking
Mursalin – Malikussaleh Journal of Mathematics Learning, 2019
The learning Algebra courses are often taught using coventional textbooks. However, the reality of the learning outcomes has not been able to absorb the material to the maximum extent possible, and this is because the textbooks is limited in number so that students only record some of what is taught by the Lecturer. At the same time, electronic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Critical Thinking, Algebra, Mathematics Instruction
Setambah, Mohd Afifi Bahurudin; Tajudin, Nor'ain Mohd; Yaakob, Mohd Faiz Mohd; Saad, Muhamad Ikhwan Mat – International Journal of Instruction, 2019
Malaysia Ministry of Education has put critical thinking skills elements into one of the six aspirations that pupils need to achieve. This was a turning point that teaching methods should be transformed. Therefore, innovation of teaching methods needs to be done. One of the strategies suggested is adventure-based learning (ABL). The main objective…
Descriptors: Adventure Education, Statistics, Critical Thinking, Foreign Countries
Hobri; Ummah, Irma Khoirul; Yuliati, Nanik; Dafik – International Journal of Instruction, 2020
This study aims to study the effectiveness of jumping task application based on creative problem solving in improving students' problem-solving abilities. The study was applied triangulation method, namely qualitative and quantitative methods. The research subject is eighth grade of Junior High School students. The research sample consists of…
Descriptors: Physical Activities, Creative Thinking, Problem Solving, Junior High School Students
Gul, M. Davut; Akcay, Hakan – International Journal of Research in Education and Science, 2020
The purpose of the study was to propose a new socioscientific issues based instruction model and to investigate the impacts of new model on PSTs? critical thinking skills and dispositions in climate change unit. Quasiexperimental method was applied. The sample of the study was determined by convenient sampling and it was comprised of 90 junior…
Descriptors: Science and Society, Preservice Teachers, Science Teachers, Critical Thinking
Erdogan, Fatma – Eurasian Journal of Educational Research, 2019
Purpose: It is assumed that cooperative work and critical thinking skills will come into prominence in 2020. In this context, the aim of this study is to examine the effect of cooperative learning supported by reflective thinking activities on seventh grade students' critical thinking skills during mathematics course. Method: In this study, a…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Reflection, Critical Thinking, Middle School Students
Prawita, Widya; Prayitno, Baskoro Adi; Sugiyarto – International Journal of Instruction, 2019
This research aimed to examine the effectiveness of a Generative Learning-based biology module to improve the analytical thinking skills of the students with high and low reading motivation. The method used was a 2x2 factorial design. The participants were 250 students of the Class XI SMA Kota Kotabumi. The researcher used an intact group…
Descriptors: Biology, Science Process Skills, Thinking Skills, Critical Thinking
Cloete, Melanie – Accounting Education, 2018
Empirical evidence highlighted the problem of underprepared graduates who lack the critical thinking skills required in the work environment. Institutions of higher learning have been mandated to provide graduates with these critical thinking skills. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether the integrated assessment conducted with…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Critical Thinking, Thinking Skills, Cognitive Tests
Jainal, Srireski; Yosephine Louise, Isana Supiah – Online Submission, 2019
The aim of this research was to examine the effect of students' critical thinking skills using a guided inquiry model with macromedia flash and direct instruction in chemistry learning. The researchers used a quasi-experiment, with post-test only control group design. This research was conducted at SMAN 3 Kota Ternate. The research subjects were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Technology, Multimedia Materials, Critical Thinking
Saputri, Wulandari; Corebima, Aloysius D.; Susilo, Herawati; Suwono, Hadi – European Journal of Educational Research, 2019
Research on critical thinking skills has been frequently carried out, but it has not shown maximum results. This problem is exacerbated by the differences in pre-service teachers' academic abilities. A new learning model that can improve pre-service teachers' critical thinking skills and reduce the gap in critical thinking skills among the upper,…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Thinking Skills, Skill Development, Preservice Teachers
Cheng, Shu-Chen; Hwang, Gwo-Jen; Lai, Chiu-Lin – Interactive Learning Environments, 2020
The present study aims to incorporate a group leadership promotion approach into collaborative learning tasks in the hope of developing students' creativity, problem-solving, and critical thinking. In order to evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed approach, we recruited 59 cross-professional students from a university in northern Taiwan, and…
Descriptors: Group Dynamics, Leadership, Cooperative Learning, Thinking Skills
Mulyanto, Heri; Gunarhadi; Indriayu, Mintasih – International Online Journal of Education and Teaching, 2018
This study aims to determine the effect of applying problem based learning model on students' mathematics learning outcomes viewed from critical thinking skills of fifth grade students of the private primary school in the Surakarta region. This research is an experimental research using sample of 309 students consisting of experimental class of…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, Mathematics Achievement, Outcomes of Education, Critical Thinking