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Killian, C. Rodney; Warrick, Catherine M. – Alternative Higher Education: The Journal of Nontraditional Studies, 1980
A learning cycle approach to undergraduate instruction implemented in a variety of subjects at Metropolitan State College in Denver is described. An experimental group demonstrated significant gains in critical thinking and cognitive skill development as well as improved retention using a framework based on Piaget's stages of cognitive…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Critical Thinking, Curriculum Design, Higher Education
Grimes, Larry E. – 1989
Between 1985 and 1988 eight colleges implemented a "Thinking Across the Curriculum" program and a procedure for assessing the impact of the program on the cognitive development and thinking skills of students. One hundred and twenty faculty members participated in the project and approximately 1,800 students studied in courses developed…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Development, College Faculty, College Students