scholarly journals Enhancing critical thinking skills in first year environmental management students: a tale of curriculum design, application and reflection

2017 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 166-181 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dona Whiley ◽  
Bradd Witt ◽  
R. M. Colvin ◽  
Rodolfo Sapiains Arrue ◽  
Julius Kotir
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Management ◽  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Curriculum Design ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Critical Thinking Skills ◽  
First Year ◽  
Management Students

A Compass During the Storm: Offering Students Critical Rigor for Polarizing Times

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Andrew M. Wender ◽  
Valerie J. D’Erman
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Civic Engagement ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Cognitive Processes ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Critical Thinking Skills ◽  
Learning Objective ◽  
First Year

ABSTRACT Teaching and learning in higher education is occurring, unavoidably, within the broader civic context of today’s extraordinarily polarizing political times. We seek to help students situate themselves with respect to and, above all, thoughtfully assess others’ as well as their own perspectives on issues of profound contention, without contributing to exacerbated polarization ourselves. Specifically, we offer students in our first-year exploratory political science course a vital tool—critical rigor—for navigating but not being inundated by the storm. This article discusses our experiences in teaching the course titled, “The Worlds of Politics,” as we attempt to help students deeply engage in cognitive processes of critical thinking and analysis, without undue infringement from their own—and least of all our own—personal political biases. Our focal learning objective is the cultivation of critical-thinking skills that promote students’ drawing of distinctions between advocacy and analysis, as well as their discerning civic engagement.

scholarly journals Re-thinking Curriculum Design and Development for Optimizing Change in Education

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (9) ◽  
pp. 1331-1339
Author(s):  
Haruna Audu Tukurah
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Curriculum Design ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Critical Thinking Skills ◽  
Learning Method ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
Curriculum Design And Development ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
Learning Principles ◽  
Developed World

Abstract: A developing world like Africa inherited an educational system that laid high emphasis on what is known as the 3Rs (reading, writing, and arithmetic). This teaching/learning method was perhaps relevant then, due to the enlightenment gap that existed between learners and their instructors (Missionaries/Colonial masters). The 3Rs known as rote learning regurgitation of facts is teacher-centered that subjects learners to memorization of information for the expansion of knowledge. This learning principle mostly evaluate learners through the use of tests and examinations to ascertain their learning levels. However, as good as the 3Rs learning method is, it only prepares learners for job acquisition, not problem-solving. This paper will argue for a paradigm shift, to key in with the developed world like America and start wrestling with an educational curriculum that is learners focused; a curriculum that is concerned with the ‘how’ to think in learning than the ‘what to think.’ Urbanization, globalization, complex factories/technologies in this dispensation are calling for learning principles that can guide learners on how to move from learning assumptions to the application of daily realities of life using both the cognitive, affective and the psychomotor domains. The paper attempt to define the ‘how’ approach using. the perspective of applying critical thinking skills before drawing a conclusion. Keywords: Curriculum design, the 3Rs and the 4Cs, critical thinking, instructors and learners, reflective teaching.

scholarly journals Cognitive Growth Learning Model to Improve the Students’ Critical Thinking Skills

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 112-123
Author(s):  
Aprilia Nurul Chasanah
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Differential Calculus ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Inductive Reasoning ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Critical Thinking Skills ◽  
First Year ◽  
Cognitive Growth ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Central Java

The ability to think critically and mathematically is strongly needed so that the students are able to face the challenges of 4.0 industrial revolution. By thinking critically, they are expected to be more adaptive in finding solutions to each problem. This study aims to identify the students' mathematical critical thinking skills in solving differential calculus problem solving based on some indicators of mathematical critical thinking skills in learning using cognitive growth model. This is a Classroom Action Research (CAR) which was caried out within four weeks in the odd semester of academic year 2018/2019. The subjects of this study were the first-year students of the Mathematics Education Program in one of higher education institutions in Magelang, Central Java who took the Differential Calculus course. Data collection techniques in this study were test, observation, and interviews. The test results were then analyzed quantitatively, and the indicators of critical thinking skills in each question were also described. Based on the results of the study, it can be shown that about 30% students who begin to think critically is initiated by achieving the indicator of analyzing the arguments. However, not all students who begin to think critically are also able to draw conclusions precisely through deductive and inductive reasoning. There are only five or 16.67% who have been able to draw conclusions correctly.

scholarly journals Board 137: Critical Thinking Skills in Non-calculus Ready First-year Engineering Students

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lizzie Santiago ◽  
Anika Pirkey ◽  
Mustapha Animashaun ◽  
Melissa Morris
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Critical Thinking Skills ◽  
First Year

scholarly journals SURVEY OF THE INTEREST LEVELS OF KHMER STUDENTS AT TRA VINH UNIVERSITY ON CRITICAL THINKING SKILL (The case of School of Southern Khmer Language, Culture and Arts)

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 12-22
Author(s):  
Ly Thi My Phan
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Southern Literature ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Critical Thinking Skills ◽  
First Year ◽  
Thinking Skill ◽  
Critical Thinking Skill ◽  
Language Pedagogy ◽  
Survey Results ◽  
Interest Levels

The study was conducted to explore the interest levels and the understanding of Khmer students at Tra Vinh University (The case of School of Southern Khmer Language, Culture and Arts). The survey results on 114   first-year to fourth-year students of the majors: Cultural Vietnamese Ethnic Minorities, Khmer language, Pedagogy of Southern Literature show that 70% of students are interested in critical thinking. Students realize that this is the necessary thinking for the learners themselves when there are 32.46% totally agree and 54.39% agree to develop critical thinking skills. Based on the results, we initially try to find out the causes and propose the  solutions to develop critical thinking skills for students.

scholarly journals Students' Mathematical Critical Thinking Based on Self-Esteem Through Problem Based Learning in Geometry

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-52
Author(s):  
Krida Singgih Kuncoro ◽  
Agustin Zakkia ◽  
Fitria Sulistyowati ◽  
Betty Kusumaningrum
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Critical Thinking Skills ◽  
First Year ◽  
Education Students ◽  
High Category ◽  
Low Levels

This study aims to describe and determine mathematical critical thinking skills based on students' self-esteem. This type of research is a mixed method with a sequential explanatory research design. The population in this study were first year mathematics education students who took geometry courses with the sampling technique used purposive sampling. Determination of the subjects grouped based on self-esteem with high, medium, and low categories to be interviewed about students' critical thinking skills. The instruments in this study were tests and interviews. The results showed that description of mathematical critical thinking skills in terms of self-esteem of students varied. Four students indicate this with high self-esteem obtained by mathematical critical thinking skills results in the form of two students in high category and two students in medium category. From 25 students with moderate self-esteem, the results of the mathematical critical thinking skills were obtained in the form of five high category students, 14 moderate category students, and six in the low category students. From three students with low self-esteem, the results of the mathematical critical thinking ability result in the form of one student in the high category and two students in the low category. It can be concluded that there is a not too significant effect on students' critical thinking skills. Meanwhile, there are differences in students' critical thinking skills in terms of self-esteem at high, medium, and low levels.

scholarly journals Critical-Thinking Skills of First-Year Athletic Training Students Enrolled in Professional Programs

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 18-25
Author(s):  
Dana K. Bates ◽  
Jill A. Sikkema ◽  
Suzette M. Nynas ◽  
Clinton Culp
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Athletic Training ◽  
Master's Degree ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Bachelor's Degree ◽  
Critical Thinking Skills ◽  
First Year ◽  
Athletic Training Students ◽  
Professional Degree ◽  
Master’S Degree

Context:The Examination of Professional Degree Level document presented to the National Athletic Trainers' Association Board of Directors states that research in athletic training education has not investigated differences in the critical-thinking skills of professional athletic training students.Objective:Investigate the differences in critical thinking and other demographic variables across first-year athletic training students enrolled in professional bachelor's- and master's-degree programs.Design:Quantitative study.Setting:District 10 athletic training programs.Patients or Other Participants:Students (N = 40) enrolled within their first 6 months of a professional athletic training program were asked to complete the California Critical Thinking Skills Test (CCTST). Twelve first-year master's-degree students (8 female, 4 male) and 28 bachelor's-degree students (18 female, 10 male) completed the CCTST (age = 20.73 ± 3.09 years).Main Outcome Measure(s):Athletic training students in District 10 were asked to complete the CCTST during the first 6 months of their respective programs. Independent t tests were used to evaluate the difference in critical-thinking scores between professional master's- and bachelor's-degree athletic training students. A 1-way analysis of variance was conducted to determine differences in critical-thinking skills with regard to gender, age, and parental educational level.Results:There were no statistically significant differences in critical-thinking skills between bachelor's- and master's-degree athletic training students enrolled in a professional athletic training program (P = .991). Additionally, there were no statistically significant differences in critical-thinking skills with regard to gender (P = .156), age (P = .410), or parental education level (P = .156).Conclusions:The results suggest master's students do not have greater critical-thinking skills than professional bachelor's students before engaging in athletic training education. Therefore, as the professional degree of athletic training transitions to the graduate level, athletic training educators may need to investigate and use pedagogical practices that will graduate critically thinking athletic trainers.

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