Critical thinking skills are crucial in the public relations profession, but teaching these skills to the Millennial Generation is vastly different from previous generations. How can a professor get past No Child Left Behind’s dependence on test review guides and “everybody wins” in getting students to think for themselves? Using the Socratic method along with thinking tools/exercises, students...

The present study was an attempt to investigate the validity of the English section of Iranian Universities PhD Entrance Exam in TEFL. To this end, 15 EFL learners from university of Isfahan who were in their last semester of that MA education were invited to contribute to the study. A group of 5 university lecturers were also asked to support the study as expert judges. A TOEFL reading paper w...

menyelesaikan soal GLBB menggunakan Think Aloud Protocols (TAPs) dan faktor penyebabnya dengan merujuk pada kategori kesalahan Watson. Penelitian dilakukan melibatkan 9 siswa kelas X SMA. Instrumen yang digunakan berupa 5 uraian materi telah valid. Berdasarkan analisis dilakukan, disimpulkan bahwa diantaranya 4,4% Inap-propriate Data kurang teliti dalam membaca grafik, Procedure memahami konsep...

The second feature of any talk I give is the purpose of my bothering to perform at all. When I ask my colleagues the purpose of a lecture, they often give some dreadfully dull responses. My view is as follows: a lecture is an opportunity to take a group of people on a journey of my choice; on the journey, I tell a story; if at the end of the journey people are still listening to my story, I kno...

Inspiration is a widely recognized phenomenon in everyday life. However, researchers still know very little about what the process of inspiration entails. This paper investigates designers’ approaches when selecting inspirational stimuli during the initial phases of a design process. We conducted a think-aloud protocol study and interviews with 31 design Masters students while generating ideas ...

I have a very simple proposition to put, that transport finance is in a mess and some radical thinking is required to solve the problem. I think the time is ripe to draw the lessons of history, and a remarkable number of pieces of the jigsaw are now falling into place. I shall propose a way of reforming the management of public sector assets, and specifically the road system. I think it is a su...

Constructive interaction provides natural thinking-aloud as test subjects collaborate in pairs to solve tasks. Since children may face difficulties in following instructions for a standard think-aloud test, constructive interaction has been suggested as evaluation method when usability testing with children. However, the relationship between think-aloud and constructive interaction is still poo...