Critical thinking: Not just for majors

Teaching Computational Thinking to Science Majors

This paper describes the development and initial evaluation of a new course ”Introduction to Computational Thinking” taken by science majors to fulfill a college computing requirement. The course was developed by computer science faculty in collaboration with science faculty and it focuses on the role of computing and computational principles in scientific inquiry. It uses Python and Python lib...

Critical Thinking about 'critical Thinking'

Mapping the development of applied critical thinking skills in engineering, technology & computing majors

Many universities have efforts related to infusing the teaching and learning of critical thinking, particularly for engineering, technology and computing related majors. This paper describes an applied critical thinking initiative at the Rochester Institute of Technology. The ability to think critically is not only developed and demonstrated in a classroom or course. Since employers are seeking...

Critical Thinking

Introduction: One of the main goals of education is thinking development. Thinking about thinking for improving the thinking process is the heart of critical thinking. This paper aimed to provide different definitions of critical thinking. Methods: This review was conducted on some published articles during 1990 to 2007 in the field of critical thinking Results: Various experts have used dif...

The Effect of Teaching Critical Thinking Strategies on Students’ Academic Writing, Critical Thinking Ability, and Critical Thinking Dispositions

This study intended to investigate the interplay of critical thinking explicit instruction, academic writing performance, critical thinking ability, and critical thinking dispositions of Iranian students. To this end, 140 students of Jahrom University of Medical Sciences (73 males and 67 females) were selected. They were divided into the experimental and control groups. Both groups received ins...