Critical Thinking as a Resilience Factor in an Engineering Program

Critical Thinking for Engineering Students

Promoting Critical Thinking through an Interdisciplinary Study Abroad Program

This paper discusses the promotion of critical thinking through an interdisciplinary curriculum design using multidisciplinary faculty as well as details the implementation of an experiential short-term study abroad program in China. To achieve this educational goal of critical thinking, along with meeting the requirements specific to each course, the program was built on a framework using two ...

Process Writing and Enhancement of Critical Thinking Ability: Is Writing a Vehicle or an Ingredient of Critical Thinking?

The study aimed to investigate the relationship between process writing (PW) and critical thinking (CT) ability of Iranian EFL learners. Furthermore, the role of PW in the enhancement of CT was investigated. In so doing, 125 upper-intermediate language learners were selected from Islamic Azad University based on convenience sampling. The results of pretest administration indicated that particip...

Towards an Operational Definition of Critical Thinking

This paper offers a state-of-the-art working definition for the concept of Critical Thinking (CT hereafter) in an attempt to provide a framework for the development of an operational definition for this complex concept. Having studied various definitions and models, proposed for CT by major figures in the field, the key defining features of this rich concept were identified and classified. Base...

On Teaching Critical Thinking to Engineering Students

Critical Thinking was introduced as a compulsory course in Informatics Engineering, formatted according to a 3-year Bologna cycle. It is already an optional course in the recently approved Telecommunications and Computers 1 cycle of the Electrical Engineering Department, to begin in September 2007. We expect enrolment of students across the board from a number of other science and technology co...