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Hyytinen, Heidi; Siven, Mia; Salminen, Outi; Katajavuori, Nina – Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 2021
Students in higher education have been shown to have difficulties in developing their critical thinking skills, such as analysis and problem solving, reasoning and argumentation. Open-ended tasks offer opportunities for students to develop their own interpretations of various sources, to critically analyse domain-specific knowledge and utilize…
Descriptors: Pharmaceutical Education, Persuasive Discourse, Cognitive Processes, Assignments
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Kaartinen-Koutaniemi, Minna; Lindblom-Ylanne, Sari – Studies in Higher Education, 2008
This study examines interdisciplinary differences in final-year psychology, pharmacy and theology students' academic thinking and personal epistemology. The semi-structured interviews (n = 52) were analysed using content analysis to assess students' individual perspectives of the cognitive process of thinking, knowing and reasoning. The three…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Comparative Analysis, Epistemology, Theological Education