Teaching Critical Thinking: Some Lessons From Cognitive Science

By T. Gelder. 2005

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Education

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A Pedagogy of Force: Faculty Perspectives of Critical Thinking Capacity in Undergraduate Students (2005, background): “Students cannot learn to think critically by simply watching someone else think critically (van Gelder, 2005).”
Students’ attitude towards natural sciences (2019, background): “They have developed some very general insights into how we think and how we learn, and this can be brought into critical thinking [20].”
The Use of Argument Maps as an Assessment Tool in Higher Education (2016, methodology): “Although argument mapping techniques have been thoroughly used in education (e.g. van Gelder, 2005; Munneke et al., 2007), their connection with solid theories of informal logic has not been yet achieved.”
Using Teacher Questions to Enhance EFL Students' Critical Thinking Ability (2014, background): “Gelder (2005) appears to strongly support this general approach, advocating that students need to have “deliberate practice” in promoting critical thinking ability.”
Teaching Critical Thinking Skills: Literature Review. (2020, background): “Gelder (2005) argued that learning about CT is not adequate; it is not adequate to teach students a course on CT theory and assume that such students will turn out to be better critical thinkers.”
Effectiveness of Critical Thinking Instruction in Higher Education: A Systematic Review of Intervention Studies (2013, unknown): “However, despite the various attempts to make CT a primary focus of higher education, analyses of existing evidence (e.g., Pascarella & Terenzini, 2005; Tsui, 2002; Van Gelder, 2005) indicates that the level of CT displayed by most students is inadequate.”
Seamless flipped learning: a mobile technology-enhanced flipped classroom with effective learning strategies (2015, background): “The cultivation of the ability of critical thinking is an important educational objective which enables students to understand and judge complex information and to make proper decisions (Dwyer et al. 2014; Glassner et al. 2005; van Gelder 2005).”
The relationship between the critical thinking skills and the academic language proficiency of prospective teachers (2013, background): “The test is based on the construct of academic literacy and has proved to be a very reliable measure with an average Cronbach Alpha of 0.85 for the TAG and 0.90 for the TALL (Van Der Slik & Weideman, 2009).”
Development of the critical thinking toolkit (CriTT): A measure of student attitudes and beliefs about critical thinking (2017, background): “As a result, guidance about teaching critical thinking in science emphasizes the aspects related to developing skills for reasoning and problem solving (van Gelder, 2005).”
Thinking Critically about Critical Thinking (2012, background): “(Van Gelder, 2005, p. 43) © 2010 The Author Educational Philosophy and Theory © 2010 Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia Accordingly, these findings should influence the sorts of assessments that we assign our students in the classroom.”
An ‘infusion’ approach to critical thinking: Moore on the critical thinking debate (2006, background): “It requires hard intellectual work, and prose is—by its very nature—notoriously open‐textured and vague (van Gelder, 2004 ).”
Thinking critically about critical thinking in higher education (2010, methodology): “Existing studies in critical thinking are predominantly drawn from either standardised tests such as the Watson-Glaser Critical Thinking Appraisal (El Hassan & Madhum, 2007) or from surveys (e.g. van Gelder, 2000, 2005).”
Deficient Critical Thinking Skills among College Graduates: Implications for leadership (2012, background): “To think critically one must be able to process new information without undue influence from prior beliefs (Papastephanou & Angeli, 2007; West et al., 2008; Paul & Elder, 2001; Van Gelder, 2005).”