Critical thinking skills are seen as one of the most important skills for researchers. Mash-Up Research Environments have the potential to activate these skills. While these environments already have their own value, this work provides a first step in answering the question of whether or not they activate thinking processes, and as a further step, what quality of thinking is activated. Consider...

Skills are an essential aspect that every individual should have. Students' critical thinking ability in Indonesia is still the low category. Based on fact science learning carried out by teachers schools tends to use lecture method learning. It causes students lack skills. This study aims analyze effect of process skills type research descriptive quantitative through experimental methods. The ...

Facing the 21st-century learning era, critical thinking skills are very important for students and become one of goals education in higher education. To achieve these educational goals, is needed that can form critical, innovative, creative, competitive students. This study aims to improve students' on materials developing rural urban areas a sustainable manner wetlands, through team-based proj...

OBJECTIVE Two field studies assessed the effects of critical thinking instruction on training and transfer of a complex decision-making skill. BACKGROUND Critical thinking instruction is based on studies of how experienced decision makers approach complex problems. METHOD Participants conducted scenario-based exercises in both simplified (Study I) and high-fidelity (Study 2) training enviro...

abstract introduction: students with appropriate critical thinking disposition can facilitate the countries of scientific development, at the first step of endeavor toward the development is to have a valid and reliable instrument .this study carried out to determine validly and reliability of california critical thinking disposition inventory (cctdi) and critical thinking disposition of nursin...

this study was an attempt to investigate the relationship between teachers' personality type (feeling vs. thinking) and speaking skill of pre- intermediate efl students in iranian context. twelve teachers and forty eight students from a local language institute participated in the study. the myers briggs type indicator (mbti), an instrument based on jung’s personality theory, was taken from tea...

conclusions the project succeeded in using focus group data from academics to inform software development while at the same time retaining the benefits of broader philosophical dimensions of critical thinking. materials and methods critiique is flexible, authorable software that guides students step-by-step through critical appraisal of research papers. the spelling of critiique was deliberate,...