Agile software development methods reduce project costs and development time by simultaneously enhancing quality. But despite these advantages, agile principles are rarely adopted by the whole organization. In order to gain a deeper understanding of this issue, we conducted an initial exploratory qualitative case study in one medium-sized company. The goal of this study was to find out whether ...

This study pioneered the research on the role of university students’ thinking styles in their preferred teaching approaches. Three hundred and forty-eight (111 male and 237 female) students from a large comprehensive university in Beijing, P.R. China, responded to the Thinking Styles Inventory (Revised) and the Preferred Teaching Approach Inventory. Results indicated that regardless of age, ge...

ARGUMENT CONSTRUCTION, ARGUMENT EVALUATION, ANDDECISION-MAKING: A CONTENT ANALYSIS OF ARGUMENTATION ANDDEBATE TEXTBOOKSby NEIL BUTTMay 2010Advisor: Dr. Kelly YoungMajor: CommunicationDegree: Doctor of PhilosophyCritical thinking abilities, especially the advanced critical thinking abilities required fordecision-making, are important to both individuals an...

The authors are part of a committee that has been designing a new high-school curriculum in computer science and supervising the preparation of a comprehensive study program based on it. The new program emphasizes the foundations of algorithmic thinking, and teaches programming as a way to get the computer to carry out an algorithm. The paper discusses the program and its initial implementation.

While districts striving to build citizenries of critical thinkers require leaders who possess and model thinking skills (Sherblom, 2010), popular research in the field has established that even in professionals, skilled critical thinking only develops through deliberate practice and in predictable stages (Elder & Paul, 2010). Therefore, emerging education leaders are expected to hone their cri...

In the light of various studies carried out in various socio-economic areas, scientific and cultural development has been introduced as a prerequisite and fundamental factor for sustainable development of the societies. Obviously, universities, as a "scientific and intellectual command center of the society" have a fundamental and unique role and function. In order to achieve this, the most sig...

This study aims to construct a comprehensive computational model of depression. In order to achieve an accurate model of depression, it is necessary not only to include subjective emotion experience, but to also include changes in physiological and behavioral states, because all three of these aspects are integral to definitions of major depressive disorders. If one were only seeking to model s...

The domination of Freud over psychotherapy during the past decades has, to a considerable extent, obscured the study of mind as a thinking organ. Much of modern research has been directed to the discovery of evidence in support ?f Freudian claims (and those of derivative schools) while the investigation of man's intellect, having in view that most of man's problems are due to thinking disorder,...

This study was undertaken to assess the critical thinking dispositions of undergraduate college students in a comprehensive university mainland China and examine roles gender major subjects’ dispositions. An adapted Chinese version California Critical Thinking Dispositions Inventory (CCTDI) used survey 534 students. Statistics revealed that over 3/4 subjects were negative their think critically...