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Effectiveness of Formal Logic Course on the Reasoning Skills of Students in Nizwa College of Technology, Oman
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Kumar, R. Renjith – Journal of Education and Practice, 2017
The study of formal logic helps to improve the process of thinking and tries to refine and improve the thinking ability. The objectives of this study are to know the effectiveness of formal logic course and to determine the critical thinking variables that are effective and that are ineffective. A sample of 214 students is selected from all the…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Thinking Skills, Skill Development, Pretests Posttests
Pedagogical Factors Stimulating the Self-Development of Students' Multi-Dimensional Thinking in Terms of Subject-Oriented Teaching
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Andreev, Valentin I. – International Education Studies, 2014
The main aim of this research is to disclose the essence of students' multi-dimensional thinking, also to reveal the rating of factors which stimulate the raising of effectiveness of self-development of students' multi-dimensional thinking in terms of subject-oriented teaching. Subject-oriented learning is characterized as a type of learning where…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Thinking Skills, Student Development, Creative Thinking
Connecting the Dots: The Decline in Meaningful Learning
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Stewart, Kenneth; Kilmartin, Christopher – Journal of Faculty Development, 2014
The authors describe cross-decades changes in the achievement attitudes and behaviors of average U. S. undergraduates that parallel the declines in meaningful learning reported by Arum and colleagues. Comparisons of pre-1987 and 2004-8 students on seven achievement-predictive measures revealed that (a) average 2004-8 undergraduates scored…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, Academic Achievement, Critical Thinking
A Strategy for Increasing Student Motivation on Low-Stakes Assessments
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Kornhauser, Zachary G. C.; Minahan, Jillian; Siedlecki, Karen L.; Steedle, Jeffrey T. – Council for Aid to Education, 2014
Low-stakes assessments are increasingly being used by institutions of higher education as measures of student learning. One issue facing the validity of these assessments is that of student motivation, as research indicates that student motivation may play a large role in influencing test scores. To address this issue, the current study sought to…
Descriptors: Motivation Techniques, Student Motivation, Undergraduate Students, Student Evaluation
The Deductive Logical Competence of Non-Graduate Caribbean Teachers.
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Brandon, E. P. – 1989
Data on some aspects of the deductive logical competence of nongraduate teachers in the English-speaking Caribbean, primarily Jamaica, are reported in this document. The teachers sampled were those who sat for entrance examinations for the University of the West Indies (Mona) Faculty of Education Bachelor of Education and Certificate of Education…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Critical Thinking, Deduction, Foreign Countries
The Relationship between Abstract Concept Achievement and Prior Knowledge, Formal Reasoning Ability, and Sex among Some Egyptian Secondary School Students.
Zeitoun, Hassan Hussein – 1988
The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between the achievement of some abstract concepts in "molecular genetics" and prior knowledge, formal reasoning ability, and sex. The major findings of the study were: (1) prior knowledge had a high significant correlation with the achievement of abstract concepts; (2) the…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Achievement, Biology, Cognitive Development