Teaching students to think critically has long been a goal of education. Some, like the authors of the article highlighted here, think it’s a goal whose importance has increased.…
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A New Way to Help Students Learn Course Vocabulary
November 13, 2012 Maryellen Weimer, PhD
Most college students struggle with the vocabulary of our disciplines. In their various electronic exchanges, they do not use a lot of multisyllabic, difficult-to-pronounce words. And virtually all college…
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The elderly shop owner opposes a corporation that wants to build a plant in her town. She’s afraid that its products, similar to the ones she manufactures, will drive…
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An Innovative Way of Analyzing Critical Thinking Skills
September 6, 2011 Maryellen Weimer, PhD
The goal of most majors is to develop the kind of critical thinking skills students will need to address the not clearly defined and conceptually complicated problems that most…
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Here’s a list of some practical suggestions taken from a neat, “miniature guide for those who teach on how to improve student learning.” (reference below) The guide was prepared…
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The findings of a recent study documenting differences between the priorities that faculty and students give to various learning goals will not come as a surprise to many. Those…
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When learners reflect, they thoughtfully consider (or reconsider) an experience. If the reflection is critical, it challenges the customary ways of understanding or explaining an experience. Critical reflection questions…
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Survey of College Faculty Reveals Increases in Student-Centered Teaching and Evaluation Methods
April 1, 2009 Mary Bart
Helping students develop critical-thinking skills and discipline-specific knowledge remain at the forefront of faculty goals for undergraduate education, with 99.6 percent of faculty indicating that critical-thinking skills are "very…