Background/purpose: With expanding technology and globalization, the educational system must teach students academic knowledge and in-depth practical skills, including critical and independent thinking. This study aims to investigate how learner autonomy affects higher-order thinking skills, metacognition, and digital literacy in Indonesian…

Purpose: This study explores the extent to which critical thinking is present in assessment conversations in social studies. Design/methodology/approach: The study builds on data from a Norwegian social studies class in the 9th grade (13-14-year-olds). Students performed student-led assessment conversations in groups of four. The students'…

Despite the critical importance of critical thinking in higher education, a gap remains regarding how environmental factors shape these dispositions. This study examined the influence of school climate, classroom management, and parenting styles on university students' critical thinking dispositions, with an inclusive classroom climate as a…

Critical thinking is a fundamental competence in 21st-century education, particularly in mathematics, where students frequently encounter contradictory information that requires logical reasoning and reflective judgment. This study explores the stages of critical thinking among junior high school students when solving contradictory mathematical…

This study aimed to explore the predictive value of self-regulation, critical thinking, and creative thinking on the writing performance of Iraqi EFL learners on TOEFL iBT, including both integrated and independent writing tasks. To this end, 300 advanced male and female Iraqi EFL learners took the Cornell Critical-Thinking Test-Level X, the…

The study aimed to investigate factors influencing students' learning in a Block Mode Learning (BML) environment in higher education. Therefore, the study examined the development of and performed a user study on the 4Cs--critical thinking, creativity, communication, and collaboration--which were integrated with BML as an effective and engaging…

"Creative Teaching in Counselor Education and Supervision" offers a fresh perspective on teaching in counselor education and related helping fields. Tailored for educators who want to invigorate their instructional approaches, this book is a valuable resource packed with creative strategies and techniques. With a focus on practical…

Lighthouses offer a unique lens for interdisciplinary teaching by connecting students to stories of innovation, perseverance, and historical change. By connecting science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) concepts with historical inquiry, students develop a deeper understanding of the ingenuity behind these structures and the…

Critical thinking and reflection are core components of all Australian university social work programs and are key skills for both students and graduates in conceptualising practice/field knowledge. This paper aims to explore the challenges international students face with critical thinking and reflection, and how the use of creative strategies…

"Productive Struggle: How Artificial Intelligence is Changing Learning, Effort, and Youth Development in Education," recently released by Bellwether, considers the role of GenAI in education. It proposes a criterion for evaluating these new technologies' impact on student learning: When does ease afforded by GenAI enable greater…

Critical thinking is an essential skill in the age of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI). GenAI affords dialectic argumentation, which provides opportunities for the development of critical thinking in argumentation (CTA). However, there was limited empirical evidence of how learners specifically utilize GenAI to construct argumentation.…

The integration of advanced generative AI has profoundly influenced higher education, especially in language learning. In Japan's exam-focused and teacher-centered English education system, students have few opportunities to use generative AI to enhance critical skills like analysis, evaluation, and creativity. Learning often remains passive, with…

Using Action, Process, Object, and Schema (APOS) theory in learning basic mathematics is an alternative to promote the students' Mathematical Critical Thinking Skills (MCTS). This experimental study aims to compare the improvement of students' MCTS in learning Basic Mathematics using a pretest-posttest control class design. Ninety students…

Today's students are motivated to understand the world around them, and in so doing, they question things that their professors take for granted. Students are naturally drawn to question the world around them, and as they do so, they are developing frameworks to better organize their questions and the answers. The author understands that students…

This paper explores the implications of youths' out-of-school gaming practices for teaching and learning in formal and informal learning contexts. We report on a study where we examined the video game play of two youths using a case study approach. User experience approaches, e.g. the think-aloud protocol and interviews, were grounded in the…