OBJECTIVE To develop classroom games as alternatives to traditional pharmacokinetic instruction. DESIGN three classroom games were created for the following purposes: simple semester review, application of pharmacokinetics in a community-pharmacy setting, and development of critical thinking skills and concept application. All the games incorporated some degree of group activity. ASSESSMENT...

Argument mapping software abounds, 1 and one of the reasons is that using the software has been shown to teach/promote/improve critical thinking skills. These positive results are very encouraging, but they also raise the question of whether the computer tutorial environment is producing these results, or whether learning argument mapping, even with just paper and pencil, is sufficient. Based o...

The problems we face at all levels in the world today resist unilateral solutions. While the web of interdependencies tightens, our capacity for thinking in terms of dynamic interdependencies has not kept pace. As the gap between the nature of our problems and the ability to understand them grows, we face increasing perils on a multitude of fronts. Systems thinking and one of its subsets—system...

A model of creative and critical thinking is presented in which analogical reasoning is used to link planes of thought and generate ideas that are then tested by employing and “if/and/then” pattern of reasoning. Data are also presented suggesting that such thinking skills develop first in familiar and observable contexts before they can be used in less familiar and unobservable contexts. The pr...

Recent reports lament the devaluation of the baccalaureate degree; too often students fail to acquire the thinking skills needed after graduation. Fortunately, the computer, besides offering utilities that increase productivity, can deliver computer-aided instruction (CAl) that helps develop thinking skills by simulating the mental processes of academic experts. Liberal arts faculty sometimes d...

This paper tries to evaluate the rate and the effect of critical thinking on reading and writing skills of students at I.A.U of district 3. Those who study library and Information science. More than 113 student were chosen for sampling analysis and Wilcakson analytical indexes were used for interpreting the results. SPSS analysis shows that the aching those skills can increase the students read...