A Cognitive Emotional Methodology for Critical Thinking

Approaches to Cognitive Bias in Serious Games for Critical Thinking

This Panel discusses decision and learning theory and application in the design of serious games to train people for bias-free critical thinking, particularly in analytical domains. The theoretical understanding of cognitive bias will determine the shape of the cognitive work that is entrained by the games. Panelists will describe an approach to bias mitigation training that is premised on a no...

Critical Thinking about 'critical Thinking'

Critical Thinking

Introduction: One of the main goals of education is thinking development. Thinking about thinking for improving the thinking process is the heart of critical thinking. This paper aimed to provide different definitions of critical thinking. Methods: This review was conducted on some published articles during 1990 to 2007 in the field of critical thinking Results: Various experts have used dif...

The Effect of Teaching Critical Thinking Strategies on Students’ Academic Writing, Critical Thinking Ability, and Critical Thinking Dispositions

This study intended to investigate the interplay of critical thinking explicit instruction, academic writing performance, critical thinking ability, and critical thinking dispositions of Iranian students. To this end, 140 students of Jahrom University of Medical Sciences (73 males and 67 females) were selected. They were divided into the experimental and control groups. Both groups received ins...

Teaching for Critical Thinking

This article reviews the core process of critical thinking – hunting assumptions – and explains how this process differs according to the context of what is being taught and the different intellectual traditions that inform teachers’ own backgrounds. It outlines a basic protocol of critical thinking as a learning process that focuses on uncovering and checking assumptions, exploring alternative...