Does College Teach Critical Thinking? A Meta-Analysis

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Educating Critical Thinkers (2016, background): “However, the specific practices that experts and laypeople use to interpret, analyze, evaluate, and infer do vary within and across disciplines (Chinn & Rinehart, in press; Sandoval et al., 2014; Sinatra, in press), in ways similar to the research on critical thinking (Huber & Kuncel, 2015).”
Critical Thinking Across the Curriculum: A Vision (2016, unknown): “Huber and Kuncel (2015) in a meta-analysis of 71 studies obtained an effect size of 0.59, which they deemed ‘‘substantial’’.”
Domains and predictors of first-year student success: A systematic review (2018, background): “In a recent meta-analysis, Huber and Kuncel (2016) investigated whether university influenced students' willingness and ability to think critically.”
Predicting real-world outcomes: Critical thinking ability is a better predictor of life decisions than intelligence (2017, background): “The large research literature on this topic has been reviewed by Halpern (2012) and in a more recent metaanalysis by Huber and Kuncel (2016).”
Collaborative Learning and Critical Thinking: Testing the Link (2017, background): “Accordingly, there is a robust research base on this important outcome in the higher education literature (see Gellin, 2003; Huber & Kuncel, 2015; McMillan, 1987).”