OBJECTIVE To provide a brief introduction to the definition and disposition to think critically along with active learning strategies to promote critical thinking. DATA SOURCES I searched MEDLINE and Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) from 1933 to 2002 for literature related to critical thinking, the disposition to think critically, questioning, and various critical-thinking peda...

When studying sensitive issues including corruption, prejudice, and sexual behavior, researchers have increasingly relied upon indirect questioning techniques to mitigate such known problems of direct survey questions as under-reporting and nonresponse. However, there have been surprisingly few empirical validation studies of these indirect techniques, because the information required to verify...

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A consistent finding in computer-mediated communication (CMC) and Internet research is that, compared to face-toface communication, CMC results in higher levels of self-disclosure. We identified four possible mediators that may carry the influence of CMC on self-disclosure: self-presentation, similarity, self-awareness, and direct questioning. The validity of these mediators was tested in an ex...

This paper presents a labelled tableau approach for deciding interrogative-epistemic logics (IEL). Tableau calculi for these logics have been derived using a recently introduced tableau synthesis method. We also consider an extension of the framework for a setting with questioning modalities over sequences of formulae called sequential questioning logic (SQL). We have implemented the calculi us...