Browsing by Subject "Critical thinking"
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Article
Critical Thinking Beyond Skill
(Routledge, 2007)The aim of this article is to investigate possibilities for conceptions of critical thinking beyond the established educational framework that emphasizes skills. Distancing ourselves from the older rationalist framework, ...
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Educating the Developing Mind: Towards an Overarching Paradigm
(2011)This essay first summarizes an overarching theory of cognitive organization and development. This theory claims that the human mind involves (1) several specialized structural systems dealing with different domains of ...
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Doctoral Thesis
Examining the effects of context-free and context-situated instructional strategies on learners' critical thinking. (contextualized instruction)
(ProQuest Information & Learning, 1999)An experimental study was carried out to (1) examine the effects of three instructional strategies on critical thinking, and (2) to determine whether there was a relationship between critical thinking and general cognitive ...
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Holy COW: Scaffolding Case Based Conferencing on the Web with Preservice Teachers
(Ed at a Distance, 2001)This study on the effects of scaffolding electronic case-based learning on preservice teacher education explored the use of an asynchronous computer conferencing tool called COW (Conferencing on the Web) to determine whether ...
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Student perspectives on the relationship between a curve and its tangent in the transition from Euclidean Geometry to Analysis
(Routledge, 2008)The tangent line is a central concept in many mathematics and science courses. In this paper we describe a model of students' thinking - concept images as well as ability in symbolic manipulation - about the tangent line ...
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Conference Object Open Access
The use of mind mapping software to improve primary school students’ ability to construct scientific arguments
(Department of Educational Sciences, University of Cyprus, 2003)The purpose of this study was to examine elementary school students’ ability to construct scientific arguments. We set out to analyze students’ arguments in aspects of structure and validity of claims, before and after ...
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Doctoral Thesis Open Access
Δεξιότητες επιχειρηματολογίας φοιτητών εκπαιδευτικών πρωτοβάθμιας εκπαίδευσης : παρεμβαλλόμενες μεταβλητές
(Πανεπιστήμιο Κύπρου, Σχολή Κοινωνικών Επιστημών και Επιστημών Αγωγής / University of Cyprus, Faculty of Social Sciences and Education, 2010-03)Μέχρι τώρα μόνο ένας περιορισμένος αριθμός ατομικών χαρακτηριστικών για την πρόβλεψη της τάσης επιχειρηματολογίας εξετάστηκε.. Επιπλέον, δε διερευνήθηκε εάν η τάση επιχειρηματολογίας και οι συνθήκες επιχειρηματολογίας ...
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Book
Έξυπνη σκέψη για δύσκολους καιρούς: (η τέχνη της επίλυσης των σωστών προβλημάτων)
(Καστανιώτης, 2007)