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Marthaliakirana, Angsoka Dwipayana; Suwono, Hadi; Saefi, Muhammad; Gofur, Abdul – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2022
Science education in the 21st century emphasizes the development of argumentation and critical thinking (CT) skills for socioscientific issues (SSIs), which students can also apply to any subject, such as biology. This study aimed to determine the effect of problem-based learning with metacognitive prompts (M-PBL) on students' argumentation and…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Grade 11, Problem Based Learning, Metacognition
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Bennett, Mark – Childhood Education, 2016
Universal Design for Learning (UDL), an instructional practice for curriculum design, brims with the promise that concepts, however challenging, may be accessible to everyone in a classroom. There is no reason for anyone, including children in special education programs, not to have the right of passage into inquiry within a unit of study. To…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Metacognition, Curriculum Design, Special Education
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Heijltjes, Anita; van Gog, Tamara; Leppink, Jimmie; Paas, Fred – Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2015
Acquisition of critical thinking skills is considered an important goal in higher education, but it is still unclear which specific instructional techniques are effective for fostering it. The main aim of this study was to unravel the impact of critical thinking instructions, practice, and self-explanation prompts during practice, on students'…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Critical Thinking, Teaching Methods, Prompting
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Schindler, Laura A.; Burkholder, Gary J. – Higher Learning Research Communications, 2014
Asynchronous online discussions (AODs) are often used to promote critical thinking in online courses; however, recent research suggests that levels of critical thinking in discussions remain low. Furthermore, there is a lack of consensus in the literature about the definition of critical thinking and many of the existing studies focus on one…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Critical Thinking, Asynchronous Communication, Computer Mediated Communication
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Parker, Walter C.; And Others – Social Education, 1991
Compares two instructional strategies, prompting and direct instruction, to determine which produces dialogical reasoning in written essays concerning controversial issues. Participants were 45 sixth graders. Finds both strategies equally productive and concludes that the emphasis should be on providing thought-provoking, issues-oriented social…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Controversial Issues (Course Content), Critical Thinking, Curriculum Development