Influences affecting the development of students' critical thinking skills

1995 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick T. Terenzini ◽  
Leonard Springer ◽  
Ernest T. Pascarella ◽  
Amaury Nora
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Critical Thinking Skills ◽  
Development Of Students

scholarly journals Scientific Conferences as Way to Develop Students’ Foreign Language Communicative Competence

2018 ◽  
Vol 50 ◽  
pp. 01155
Author(s):  
Yuliya Savinova ◽  
Tatiana Akhmetzyanova ◽  
Svetlana Pozdnyakova ◽  
Ekaterina Dvorak ◽  
Zhanna Zarutskaya
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Student Engagement ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Critical Thinking Skills ◽  
Foreign Languages ◽  
Research Skills ◽  
High Level ◽  
Development Of Students

The issues of the student engagement in science-related activities and the development of students’ language communicative competence are especially relevant in a technical university, where due to the prevailing of the Sciences, the professional communicative competence has become increasingly vital. The goal of this article is to examine how interdisciplinary scientific conferences for students held in foreign languages can foster the foreign language communicative competence of students. In the article, we present the definition and the three basic models of communicative competence. A method of pedagogical observation is used that represents comprehension and analysis of goal-oriented preparation of students for practical scientific conferences. We reveal the fact that interdisciplinary scientific conferences for students held in foreign languages allow educators to foster the foreign language communicative competence of students and deepen their knowledge in professional area, as well as to equip them with research skills since students’ participation in the conferences increases their attention and focus, motivates them to practice critical thinking skills of high level.

scholarly journals Teachers’ Professional Skills as a Factor in the Development of Students’ Critical Thinking

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (6) ◽  
pp. 88-103
Author(s):  
J.N. Koreshnikova ◽  
I.D. Froumin
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Multivariate Regression ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Regression Method ◽  
Critical Thinking Skills ◽  
Access To Information ◽  
Modern Education ◽  
Classroom Lesson ◽  
Development Of Students

The modern generation of students actively use technology and have access to information at any time. However, having access to information and being able to competently work with information are two different tasks. The use of information in any form is impossible without the use of critical thinking skills, therefore the level and quality of critical thinking is of paramount importance. Considering that in the modern education system, the traditional type of teaching is quite common — the classroom-lesson form of teaching, where the teacher is the leading figure, providing students with ready-made knowledge at lectures. At the same time, students take a passive position in relation to the assimilation of knowledge. Is it becoming important to understand how to develop students’ higher-order skills, including critical thinking, in this type of learning? In a study conducted on a sample of students from one of the leading national research universities in Russia (4,897 students), using the multivariate regression method, it was proved that teaching within the framework of the traditional type of education can be positively associated with the level of development of critical thinking if teachers have developed subject-logical and organizational competence.

Teachers’ Intervention in Developing English Majors’ Critical Thinking When Teaching Writing in Chinese Universities

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (12) ◽  
pp. 1290
Author(s):  
Mingzhu Hu
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Language Skills ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Critical Thinking Skills ◽  
Teaching Writing ◽  
Chinese Universities ◽  
Self Calibration ◽  
Writing Problems ◽  
English Major ◽  
Development Of Students

Developing English major students’ critical thinking is very important to the development of students’ overall competence. Compared with other language skills, writing asks for more critical thinking skills, and in turn writing is a proper media for teachers to develop student’s critical thinking skills. From English major students’ writing pieces, we can tell that most of the writing problems are related with the deficiency of critical thinking skills. Therefore, in different stages of writing teaching, teachers should intervene in students’ learning and practicing by proper and purposeful directing and instructing so as to impel students to think critically and to write critically. And gradually students’ critical thinking skills of interpretation, analysis, explanation, inference, evaluation and self-calibration will get improved.

scholarly journals Management by Textbook

2015 ◽  
Vol 39 (6) ◽  
pp. 774-800 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alison Errington ◽  
David Bubna-Litic
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Teaching Practices ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Critical Thinking Skills ◽  
Leadership Role ◽  
Skills Gap ◽  
Successful Management ◽  
Student Epistemology ◽  
Critical Skills ◽  
Development Of Students

Critical thinking is widely regarded as a crucial capability for competent management and also for any leadership role in society. In this article, we ask, “How do textbooks play a role in the weakness of many management graduates’ critical thinking skills?” Management teachers can find plentiful advice about best teaching practices, yet the critical skills gap remains. We argue that the nature and use of management textbooks intersect and interact with students’ epistemology to support a culture of surface learning, resulting in a failure to develop critical thinking skills. Textbooks reinforce underdeveloped student epistemology through limitations of content and position students as passive recipients of an authoritative version of oversimplified knowledge. In our survey of 30 successful management textbooks, we found the majority of popular management textbooks potentially inhibit, or only weakly support, the development of students’ capacity for critical thinking. The article concludes with suggestions for improving textbooks and textbook choice or considering alternatives.

scholarly journals EFFORTS TO IMPROVE STUDENT CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS IN IPS LEARNING THROUGH THINK PAIR SHARE TYPE DISCUSSION METHOD

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Carinih Carinih
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Action Research ◽  
Study Design ◽  
Action Observation ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Critical Thinking Skills ◽  
Learning Method ◽  
Student Activity ◽  
Teacher Actions ◽  
Development Of Students

This research is motivated by learning methods that still apply conventional methods so as to limit the development of students' abilities and skills. This study seeks to improve students' critical thinking skills through the learning method of think pair share. The research was carried out at SMPN 5 Singingi with class VII.2 subjects as many as 24 students. The study design uses classroom action research. The instrument used was a teacher and student action observation sheet and a test of critical thinking skills. The results showed an increase in teacher actions in the first cycle with a percentage of 72% with the category quite increased in the second cycle to 83% with a good category, increased student activity from cycle I by 75% with enough categories in the second cycle to 88% which is a good category, and the results of critical thinking skills test students in the first cycle 65% with a good category increased in the second cycle to 77% which is included in the good category. The conclusion of this research is the think pair share method can improve the critical thinking skills of students in class VII.2 of SMPN 5 Singingi.

scholarly journals Developing Critical Thinking Ability In Students On The Basis Of Problem Approach (On The Example Of The Subject "Civil Society")

2020 ◽  
Vol 02 (11) ◽  
pp. 169-174
Author(s):  
Kudayberganova Tajixal Kuchkarovna ◽  
◽  
Tileyov Erkinbay Muratbayevich ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Critical Thinking Skills ◽  
Critical Thinking Ability ◽  
Thinking Ability ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Development Of Students

This article discusses the development of students' critical thinking skills and its consequences on the basis of a problem-based approach on the example of the subject "Civil Society" in the universities of the Republic of Uzbekistan.

scholarly journals Improving Student's Critical Thinking Ability Through The Jigsaw Learning Model

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 242
Author(s):  
Zahratul Azizah
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Learning Model ◽  
Class Action ◽  
Critical Thinking Skills ◽  
Learning Activities ◽  
Critical Thinking Ability ◽  
Lecture Material ◽  
Thinking Ability ◽  
Development Of Students

Problems that are often encountered in learning activities include students having difficulty expressing ideas and opinions related to lecture material, when their discussions are more fixated on explaining the reading sources they get either through books or through other electronic media without being able to develop and explain rationally, analysis, as well as critical of the source of the reading. In terms of lecturers as educators, in providing learning to students, on average, they still use conventional patterns, namely the lecture model where students only act as recipients of information from the lecturers. All of this will certainly lead to the development of students' critical thinking skills during lectures. The ability to think critically, of course cannot be obtained just like that without a process in education, and not everyone can easily get it. This study aims to determine how to improve students' thinking skills through a jigsaw learning model. The method used in this research is class action with two cycles. The results showed that there was an increase in students' critical thinking skills after using the jigsaw learning model in learning activities.Key words : Learning, Model of Jigsaw Learning, Critical Thinking Ability

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