This study aimed to explore whether Explicit Scientific Inquiry Instruction (ESII) Hybrid Mode in the context of Socioscientific Issues could improve students' critical thinking skills. The research design was a one group pretest-posttest design. sample 31 science eleventh graders at SMA Mojosari for academic year 2021/2022. data collected using skills test on Chemical Kinetics which consists 2...

Practical and effective faculty development programs are vital to individual and institutional success. However, there is little evidence that program outcomes result in instructional changes. The purpose of this study was to determine if and how faculty development would enhance participants' use of critical thinking skills in instruction. Seven faculty members from the University of Florida C...

the necessity of conducting more studies addressing the development of pragmatic profciency and strong pragmatic awareness for english language learners has made the role of instruction and feedback in teaching pragmatic knowledge of utmost importance. the present study evaluates the relative effectiveness of four types of instruction for teaching some pragmatic markers including topic change m...

For over a decade, seeking higher test scores has pushed critical thinking in social studies to the background. This quasi-experimental quantitative study demonstrates that critical thinking lessons do not negatively impact test scores for eighth grade social studies students. For ten weeks, 116 students in a multiethnic, suburban school were divided into two groups – one taught using mainly cr...

Although nurse educators have designed many techniques for enhancing critical-thinking skills in clinical and seminar settings, lectures also remain an integral part of nursing education. The author offers practical active learning strategies for promoting critical thinking in large classroom instruction.

Halpern (1998) proposed a four-component model for promoting the transfer of critical thinking. One of them, the "structural component," focuses on how to organize teaching so that critical thinking skills can be generalized. Here, we assess the efficiency of that type of organization. Thus, one group of university students received instruction following the suggestions specified in that compon...

abstractthis study aimed to shed light on young iranian efl students’ oral proficiency improvement through explicit instruction of formulaic sequences (fss). this pretest-posttest quasi experimental study was conducted in a bilingual school in shahrekord, iran. accordingly, based on actfl opi test, two groups of low intermediate students with age range of 11 to 12 were chosen to be assigned as ...

the present study was planned to investigate the efficiency of explicit teaching and adequacy of the l2 learners' exposure to l2 input in academic contexts in iran. the case at hand was the acquisition of referential, quasi and expletive subject pronouns, as three different types of obligatory subjects in english. 96 iranian efl learners were selected from two universities in isfahan. they were...