scholarly journals Promoting and Assessing EFL College Students' Critical Thinking Skills through Argumentative Essay Writing

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 133-150
Author(s):  
Talha A. Sharadgah ◽  
Rami A. Sa'di ◽  
Hamdi H. Ahmad
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Critical Thinking Skills ◽  
Essay Writing ◽  
Efl College Students

scholarly journals Learning through Writing: Teaching Critical Thinking Skills in Writing Assignments

2012 ◽  
Vol 45 (02) ◽  
pp. 298-306 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gamze Çavdar ◽  
Sue Doe
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Critical Thinking Skills ◽  
Writing Assignments ◽  
Course Content ◽  
Lower Division ◽  
Writing Assignment

AbstractTraditional writing assignments often fall short in addressing problems in college students' writing as too often these assignments fail to help students develop critical thinking skills and comprehension of course content. This article reports the use of a two-part (staged) writing assignment with postscript as a strategy for improving critical thinking in a lower-division political science course. We argue that through well-designed writing assignments, instructors can encourage students to reconsider concepts, critically evaluate assumptions, and undertake substantive revisions of their writing.

Does the medium affect the message? The influence of text representation format on critical thinking

2007 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 269-279
Author(s):  
Yoram Eshet-Alkalai ◽  
Nitza Geri
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Information Economics ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Critical Thinking Skills ◽  
Digital Information ◽  
School Students ◽  
Digital Formats

The proliferation of digital information resources in recent years challenges consumers with the need to employ critical thinking skills in reading news. This paper suggests an updated perspective to the expression that “the medium is the message” by comparing the ability of high-school and college students to exercise critical thinking skills in reading news in print and digital formats. The most important finding is the better performance of the younger participants (high school students) in reading digital news formats, and the better performance of the college students when reading news in a print format. The findings of this exploratory study are discussed through the lenses of three perspectives: a usability perspective, a cognitive perspective and an information economics perspective in order to stimulate further research that may provide designers, researchers and educators with useful guidelines for designing effective messages in the information age.

scholarly journals The Effectiveness of Adapting the Six Thinking Hats Model into Music Courses to Improve Critical Thinking Skills

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
John Jasina ◽  
Eunjung Choi
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Critical Thinking Skills ◽  
Music Appreciation ◽  
Test Design ◽  
Single Group ◽  
Teaching Techniques ◽  
Post Test ◽  
Positive Results

The purpose of this study was to assess the effectiveness of adopting the Six Thinking Hats (STH) model into music appreciation courses to examine the improvement in student critical thinking skills. The research employed a pre-experimental research design with a single group pre-test and post-test design. The study was a quantitative study analyzing the results of a critical thinking pre-test and critical thinking post-test for a sample of 24 college students. The results of the study revealed that adapting the STH model for discussion activities resulted in more positive results compared to other teaching techniques proposed in the curriculum.

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