The purpose of the present study was to investigate teachers’ declarative metacognitive knowledge of higher order thinking skills. This was a qualitative study conducted within the educational setting of in-service science teachers’ courses. The main finding is that teachers’ intuitive (i.e., pre-instructional) knowledge of metacognition of thinking skills is unsatisfactory for the purpose of t...

The rules regarding the assessment carried out by teachers have been refined to match demands of 21st-century learning, aspect that has improved is cognitive aspect, specifically in Higher Order Thinking Skills. However, prospective and even still difficulty implementing this assessment. purpose study was determine profile ability physics teacher students solving Skills questions as an initial ...

This study examined the relationship between students working in a technology-rich environment and their development of higher order thinking skills. Based on a PhD thesis, which examined a greater range of relationships than can be reported here, this article focuses on developing critical thinking skills within a technology-rich environment. Staff and students from one school participated in ...