CRITICAL THINKING IN DISTANCE EDUCATION AND TRADITIONAL EDUCATION

Quarterly Review of Distance Education;  January 1, 2003 ;   Visser, Lya; Visser, Yusra Laila; Schlosser, Charles;   787 words ......CONCEPT The authors of this paper see critical thinking as a disciplined manner of thought...or habits of mind associated with critical thinking include asking questions, defining...tolerating ambiguity (Facione, 1998). Critical thinking requires a deep understanding of...

The Effect of Undergraduate Student Involvement on Critical Thinking: A...

Journal of College Student Development;  November 1, 2003 ;   Gellin, Alan;   787 words ......campus, and employment on critical thinking. Students involved in these...experienced a .14 gain in critical thinking compared to students who...1987). The teaching of critical thinking can be traced back to Socrates...

Contemporary Approaches to Critical Thinking and the World Wide Web

Art Education;  January 1, 2007 ;   Buffington, Melanie L;   787 words ......and promoted by today's educators. Critical thinking is now an oft-cited issue in most...began researching the concept of critical thinking. David Jonassen (2000) wrote, "Among...schools, I believe that the concept of critical thinking (generalizable, higher order thinking...

Critical Thinking Hispanic Imperative; What It Is and Why We Need It

The Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education;  May 3, 2004 ;     787 words ...The significance of critical thinking to the Hispanic community...and potential decisions. Critical thinking is the art of thinking better...understand the importance of critical thinking, it is helpful to understand...

Critical thinking across the curriculum

The Community College Enterprise;  October 1, 2002 ;   Cameron, Paul; Richmond, Gary;   787 words ...Critical thinking can help its practitioners understand the...arguments and the need for teaching and using critical thinking skills across the curriculum. Introduction Critical thinking, simply stated, is arriving at conclusions...

Pedagogical tools to develop critical thinking.

Academic Exchange Quarterly;  December 22, 2005 ;   Vesely, Pamela Sherlock, John;   787 words ......who are experienced and adept in critical thinking. This article discusses the value...pedagogical tools for developing students' critical thinking skills. The authors suggest learning...who are experienced and adept in critical thinking (Brown & Meuti, 1999; Halpern...

Teaching critical thinking: The more, the better!

The Community College Enterprise;  October 1, 2003 ;   Solon, Tom;   787 words ......question whether different amounts of critical thinking instruction would lead to significantly different levels of improvement in critical thinking test scores. The researcher used...compare the pre and post scores of critical thinking (full-treatment), psychology (partial-treatme...

An Approach to Teaching for Critical Thinking in Health Education.

Journal of School Health;  October 1, 2000 ;   Broadbear, James T. Keyser, Bette B.;   787 words ...Critical thinking represents a major focus of educational...universities. Differences exist in the way critical thinking is conceptualized and defined in...reform movement. Literature on critical thinking from a variety of disciplines provides...

The generalizability of critical thinking: paranormal beliefs versus...

Journal of Genetic Psychology;  December 1, 1995 ;   Royalty, Joel;   787 words ...The assumption that critical thinking is a generalizable skill is...programs designed to teach critical thinking abilities and dispositions...assumption and the value of generic critical thinking courses on the grounds that...

... An idea whose time has come! (critical thinking in physical...

JOPERD--The Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance;  August 1, 1994 ;   McBride, Ron E.;   787 words ......effectively. Though Dewey (1910) listed critical thinking as a key goal of education in the...critically) than is typically done. Most critical thinking discussion and attention is focused...is a paucity of information about critical thinking outside the core academic subject...

Critical thinking and physical education.(Critical Thinking in Physical...

JOPERD--The Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance;  August 1, 1995 ;   Tishman, Shari Perkins, David N.;   787 words ......and planning - all parts of the critical thinking process. A friend of ours is an avid...engaged in two important kinds of critical thinking: causal reasoning and metacognition...some fundamental connections between critical thinking and physical education, identifying...

Challenging students with the tools of critical thinking.

The Social Studies;  November 1, 2002 ;   Wright, Ian;   787 words ......capital punishment, strategies for teaching critical thinking Critical thinking has long been a goal of social studies...standards for the social studies. Yet, teaching critical thinking is problematic because there are competing...

The theory of critical thinking of nursing.

Nursing Education Perspectives;  September 1, 2002 ;   Martin, Cheryl;   787 words ...ABSTRACT Critical thinking is a thought process used by...on the relationships among critical thinking, decision-making, and clinical...the acquisition of knowledge, critical thinking is developed and used for clinical...

Dialogical critical thinking: elements of definitions emerging in the...

Australian Journal of Education;  November 1, 2004 ;   Daniel, Marie-France Splitter, Laurance Slade, Christina Lafortune, Louise Pallascio, Richard Mongeau, Pierre;   787 words ......clarify Matthew Lipman's definition of critical thinking. The research project was conducted...the manifestations of 'dialogical critical thinking' in pupils aged 10 to 12. From the...seem representative of dialogical critical thinking, although the modalities of thinking...

Integration of critical thinking skills into elementary school teacher...

Education;  March 22, 2008 ;   Sezer, Renan;   787 words ...Background Critical thinking receives increasing emphasis...educators are tempted to equate critical thinking with higher order thinking...Attempts have been made to define critical thinking (Ennis, 1981; Paul, 1985; Lipman...