Session Summary

Teaching Critical Thinking: Assessing and Improving Students’ and Teachers’ Reasoning Skills

Fri, April 13, 2:15 to 3:45pm, Millennium Broadway New York Times Square, Floor: Seventh Floor, Room 7.02-7.03

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Fostering students’ critical thinking (CT) skills is one of the major ambitions of education. However, there are many open questions with regard to teaching CT, such as how to assess students’ reasoning skills, what effective instructional interventions would be (especially for establishing transfer) and whether teachers are and feel equipped to teach CT. The first two contributions in this symposium focus on assessing students’ reasoning skills with a domain-specific test and in vivo during team problem solving. The last two contributions present experimental studies on the effectiveness of instructional interventions to improve students’ and teachers’ reasoning skills. Our discussant, will engage the authors and audience in critical thinking about these studies.

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