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Peer reviewedHopkins, Martha H. (Marty) – Teaching Children Mathematics, 1997
Describes a mathematical investigation centered on collecting and analyzing data in a scientific setting. The first experiment teaches the basics of data collection--students should be able to identify variables that might have affected experimental results. The second activity includes designing an experiment to control for these variables. The…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Data Analysis, Elementary Education, Elementary School Mathematics
Peer reviewedSantel-Parke, Carol; Cai, Jinfa – Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, 1997
Discusses a performance assessment tool that entails open-ended tasks requiring students not only to provide answers but to show their solution processes. Discusses several areas to address in developing open-ended tasks. Areas include the need to assess important mathematical content and cognitive processes, use of effective prompts, and use of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Context Effect, Critical Thinking, Cues
Peer reviewedKamhi-Stein, Lia D.; Galvan, Jose L. – TESOL Journal, 1997
Discusses an innovation second-language teacher education project for teachers of English as a foreign language from Egypt. The model program used was based on the premise that teacher education programs must provide trainees with opportunities to reflect critically upon their own teaching practices and beliefs in a context of collaboration with…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Context Effect, Critical Thinking, Curriculum Design
Schatz, Curt; Schaefer, Susan – Taproot, 1997
A finding that environmental educators are eager to accept Virtual Reality (VR) as a teaching tool prompts two responses: one claims that students cannot critically analyze VR information to determine what is relevant because the VR programmer has already done that; the other points out that corporate propaganda taints the technology and that…
Descriptors: Advertising, Computer Uses in Education, Corporate Support, Critical Thinking
Peer reviewedWoods, Donald R.; And Others – American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education, 1996
Small-group, self-directed, problem-based learning can be conducted with or without a faculty tutor. Groups without a tutor are trained to manage problem solving, change, group process, critical thinking, and independent learning skills. Processing issues are very different for tutorless and tutored groups; some issues are experienced by both.…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Classroom Techniques, Critical Thinking, Discussion Groups
Peer reviewedLeahy, Robert; Corcoran, Carol A. – Journal of Research and Development in Education, 1996
This paper describes the idea of connecting a reflective practitioner theme in a teacher education program to developing students' educational philosophy, presenting an inventory to assess preservice teachers' educational philosophy, and offering a rationale, for how it can guide field experience. (SM)
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Education Courses, Educational Philosophy, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedMcBride, Ron; Bonnette, Randy – Teaching and Teacher Education, 1995
Results from a study of at-risk boys in a summer camp suggest that critical thinking can be fostered effectively in an instructional framework that emphasizes teacher modeling, an indirect approach to instruction, group collaboration, and strategy facilitation. The study examined changes in critical- thinking scores, as well as teacher and student…
Descriptors: Classroom Observation Techniques, Classroom Research, Critical Thinking, Economically Disadvantaged
Billing, David – Compare, 2003
Summarizes various stakeholder surveys and factor analyses that attempt to delineate transferable skills, such as problem solving, communication, teamwork, and critical thinking. Points out that employer skill requirements may vary among countries and these differences may not always be cultural, but are related to different uses of terminology…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Communications, Comparative Education, Critical Thinking
Peer reviewedPaul, Karin; Kuhlthau, Carol C.; Branch, Jennifer L.; Solowan, Diane Galloway; Case, Roland; Abilock, Debbie; Eisenberg, Michael B.; Koechlin, Carol; Zwaan, Sandi; Hughes, Sandra; Low, Ann; Litch, Margaret; Lowry, Cindy; Irvine, Linda; Stimson, Margaret; Schlarb, Irene; Wilson, Janet; Warriner, Emily; Parsons, Les; Luongo-Orlando, Katherine; Hamilton, Donald – School Libraries in Canada, 2003
Includes 19 articles that address issues related to library skills and Canadian school libraries. Topics include information literacy; inquiry learning; critical thinking and electronic research; collaborative inquiry; information skills and the Big 6 approach to problem solving; student use of online databases; library skills; Internet accuracy;…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Databases, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedHarris, Frances Jacobson – Knowledge Quest, 2003
Discusses Web sites operated by extremist groups and considers how school library media specialists can educate students about hate groups and teach strategies to recognize inappropriate sites. Topics include critical thinking; limiting access through filters; developing Web access policies; and creating computer use agreements. (LRW)
Descriptors: Access to Information, Computer Use, Critical Thinking, Elementary Secondary Education
McElmeel, Sharron L. – Technology Connection, 1997
Describes a research project where fifth- and sixth-grade students compiled information from original sources and presented it on a Web site. Discusses planning, students' critical thinking in research strategies, and learning outcomes. Includes a summary of selected topics researched with a note on technology skills used. (AEF)
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Critical Thinking, Grade 5, Grade 6
Peer reviewedGreen, C. F.; And Others – ELT Journal, 1997
Provides a rationale to support an experiential and process-oriented approach to the development of discussion skills in a second language. Although English is used for exemplification, the approach could be used to develop discussion skills in any second language. (13 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Audiotape Recordings, Cognitive Style, Critical Thinking, Discussion (Teaching Technique)
Peer reviewedPerry, Nancy Walker; And Others – Teaching of Psychology, 1996
Describes the course content, student response, and instructional effectiveness of an undergraduate psychology and law course built around a series of active learning projects. Students chose either to attend a jury trial or to interview three people involved in the legal system. These formed the basis for papers and presentations. (MJP)
Descriptors: Active Learning, Course Content, Critical Thinking, Educational Strategies
Peer reviewedGabella, Marcy Singer – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 1996
Presents a response to, and critique of, the purely postmodernist approach to the study of history. Maintains that an appreciation of the subjective and constructed nature of knowledge still can be integrated, as a component, into a study of the understanding, construction, and transcription of history. (MJP)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Critical Thinking, Criticism, Educational Development
Peer reviewedKidwell, F. L. – Social Studies Review, 1996
Recommends beginning classes in history with a short unit on historiography (why and how we study history). This not only provides a context for the succeeding material but also allows for a discussion of inquiry and research methodologies. Defends history-social science as a foundational skill. (MJP)
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Cultural Background, Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education
