A Graduate Evaluation Course Designed for Critical Thinking: Students’ Motivation and Instructional Satisfaction

• In Event: D&D - Students' Perceptions and Motivation

Short Description

In this session, the authors describe how they used Systems Thinking and HPT framework in designing a graduate course on evaluation to promote learners’ critical thinking according to Ennis’s infusion and immersion approaches. They discuss the course’s instructional strategies and learners’ activities as broken down by five categories of higher order and critical thinking skills. Data on students’ perception on the course’s instructional motivation and their satisfaction with the overall instruction will also be presented.

Authors

• Thomas Logan Arrington, Florida State University

• Aubteen Darabi, 4623-C University Center, LSI