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Holmes, N. G.; Kumar, Dhaneesh; Bonn, D. A. – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2017
Developing critical thinking skills is a common goal of an undergraduate physics curriculum. How do students make sense of evidence and what do they do with it? In this study, we evaluated students' critical thinking behaviors through their written notebooks in an introductory physics laboratory course. We compared student behaviors in the…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Cues, Instructional Effectiveness, Thinking Skills
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Ekici, Didem Inel – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science & Technology Education, 2017
This empirical study attempted to investigate the effect of using online communities of practice in teacher education on pre-service teachers' critical thinking dispositions. California Critical Thinking Disposition Inventory and the comments posted to the online community of practice were used as the data collection tools. Results showed that…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Computer Mediated Communication, Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers
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Arya, Poonam; Christ, Tanya; Chiu, Ming Ming – Journal of Teacher Education, 2014
This study explored how peer and professor facilitations are related to teachers' behaviors during video-case discussions. Fourteen inservice teachers produced 1,787 turns of conversation during 12 video-case discussions that were video-recorded, transcribed, coded, and analyzed with statistical discourse analysis. Professor facilitations (sharing…
Descriptors: Teacher Behavior, Literacy, Protocol Materials, Facilitators (Individuals)
Eutsler, Mark L. – Online Submission, 2013
Indiana's declining SAT scores prompted the publisher of a statewide magazine covering the literary, performing, and visual arts to take action and create a program to use the magazine as a supplemental resource for students. It was believed that such a supplemental resource could enhance critical thinking and writing skills and help raise SAT…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Writing Skills, Instructional Materials, Teaching Methods
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Angelaina, Sophia; Jimoyiannis, Athanassios – Educational Media International, 2012
This paper reports on a case study investigating students' participation and learning presence in an educational blog implemented as a cross-thematic inquiry activity exploring and debating on the acid rain problem. Twenty-one secondary education students (14-15 years aged), coming from two separate classes, were involved. The content and…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Web Sites, Electronic Publishing, Web 2.0 Technologies
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Abrams, Zsuzsanna I. – Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology, 2005
A primary objective of graduate education, and often promoted by peer collaboration tasks, is the development of critical thinking skills. The present study compares how graduate students enrolled in a qualitative research design course in applied linguistics utilized asynchronous computer-mediated communication (ACMC) and face-to-face…
Descriptors: Asynchronous Communication, Critical Thinking, Seminars, Graduate Students