Improving Critical Thinking Skill Through Team-based Projects, is it Effective?

Critical thinking skill in Shiraz University of medical sciences students

Introduction: Critical thinking is a skill and capability on which learner can achieve teaching goals during an active mental process only after receiving key points from teacher. This capability can enhance subject remembrance by students and deliver them to training targets with clarity. One of the benefits of this skill is that it can widen thinking horizons of students over learned to...

Cooperative Learning through Team-Based Projects in the Biotechnology Industry †

We have developed a cooperative-learning, case studies project model that has teams of students working with biotechnology professionals on company-specific problems. These semester-long, team-based projects can be used effectively to provide students with valuable skills in an industry environment and experience addressing real issues faced by biotechnology companies. Using peer-evaluations, w...

Examining critical thinking and teaching it in education

To have a healthy community requires a healthy family; and one of the key to having a healthy family is transcendental education with the program. As education is one of the main pillars of a progressive society, attention to its basic pillars and structures has a special place. In recent years, Critical Thinking has been supposed as one of the essential components of education. Despite the imp...

Team Based Engineering Design Thinking

Teaching Critical Thinking through a Dialogic Approach: The infusion model

Abstract Recent interest in teaching thinking has lead different researchers to examine different approaches in education to find effective methods and approaches for teaching thinking. Through a qualitative case analysis, this study attempted to identify the effects of the infusion model of teaching thinking implemented through a dialogic approach on a PhD candidate’s critical thinking skills....