Process Skills-Based E-Module: Impact On Analytical Thinking Skills

Hard thinking on soft skills

The nation’s PK-12 education ecosystem is poised to embrace programs intended to enhance soft skills. Soft skills are generally defined by exclusion as personal qualities other than the formal knowledge transmitted by schools that affect student adjustment, i.e., the effort that students put into their work and their social skills. Such soft skills are far too important for the education reform...

the influence of social and cultural capital on efl students critical thinking skills

the major aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between social and cultural capital and efl students’ critical thinking skills. this study takes this relationship in to account to see if people with different sociocultural status are different regarding their critical thinking skills. to this end, 160 university students majoring in english language and literature, english trans...

A discipline-based undergraduate skills module

This paper describes the development and evaluation of a discipline-based skills module at Level 1 in the undergraduate psychology curriculum. The module combined generic and subjectspecific skills teaching, linked skills provision with the personal tutor system and included practical exercises to promote deep learning and improve study skills. Student feedback showed that workshops and tutoria...

Teaching Thinking Skills

Developing critical thinking skills.

As a student and teacher of adult education in nursing, the writer could not help but be interested in the way adults learn. Over the years this interest had extended to curriculum development. The curriculum models which were explored and even those designed by the writer over the years seemed to provide the structure needed for effective teaching and learning situations but what was not reali...