Publication Date
In 2025 | 0 |
Since 2024 | 0 |
Since 2021 (last 5 years) | 3 |
Since 2016 (last 10 years) | 34 |
Since 2006 (last 20 years) | 77 |
Descriptor
College Students | 85 |
Pretests Posttests | 85 |
Thinking Skills | 85 |
Critical Thinking | 43 |
Foreign Countries | 36 |
Teaching Methods | 35 |
Statistical Analysis | 25 |
Control Groups | 22 |
Experimental Groups | 19 |
Instructional Effectiveness | 19 |
Skill Development | 19 |
More ▼ |
Source
Author
Publication Type
Reports - Research | 72 |
Journal Articles | 71 |
Reports - Evaluative | 8 |
Tests/Questionnaires | 6 |
Dissertations/Theses -… | 4 |
Speeches/Meeting Papers | 4 |
Dissertations/Theses -… | 1 |
Education Level
Higher Education | 76 |
Postsecondary Education | 60 |
Two Year Colleges | 2 |
Adult Education | 1 |
Early Childhood Education | 1 |
Elementary Education | 1 |
High School Equivalency… | 1 |
Audience
Location
Indonesia | 6 |
Turkey | 5 |
Taiwan | 3 |
China | 2 |
Malaysia | 2 |
Thailand | 2 |
Algeria | 1 |
Bahrain | 1 |
California | 1 |
Canada | 1 |
Egypt | 1 |
More ▼ |
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Urhan, Selin – Education and Information Technologies, 2022
The aim of this study is to explore the computational thinking (CT) processes of university students with the integration of CAS and ACODESA method within the context of problem-solving. The participants of the study are 22 university students. The embedded design was used in the study. The qualitative data consists of the written products of the…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Computation, College Students, Problem Solving
Orhan, Ali – International Journal of Technology in Education, 2023
This study aimed to investigate the effect of online, flipped, and in-class critical thinking teaching on critical thinking skills and dispositions of university students. Pretest-posttest control group quasi-experimental design was employed in this study that has three experimental groups and one control group. In the first experimental group,…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Instructional Effectiveness, Electronic Learning, In Person Learning
Hasanah, Hasanah; Malik, Muh. Nasir – Cypriot Journal of Educational Sciences, 2020
This study investigates the effectiveness of the blended learning model in improving critical thinking and communication skills of students at university. This is a quasi-experimental study with a non-equivalent control group design involving one experimental group and one control group. The research population comprised students sitting in the…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Critical Thinking, Thinking Skills, Communication Skills
Xue, Jin – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2021
Previous research is seldom addressed to biliteracy relationship for adult learners in the foreign language context. The present study was a repeated-measure design in a 9-month longitudinal study. One hundred and thirty-nine college students (ages 19-21 years) who learned English as a foreign language were measured twice at pre- and post-tests on…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Chinese, Literacy
Dafik; Sucianto, Bayu; Irvan, Muhtadi; Rohim, Muhammad Abdul – International Journal of Instruction, 2019
The study aims to investigate the analysis of student metacognition skill in solving the rainbow connection problem under the implementation of the research-based learning model. The method used in this study is a mixed method. The research subjects were the 4th semester of students of higher education consisting of 30 students of experimental…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Problem Solving, Foreign Countries, Experimental Groups
Klopp, Eric; Stark, Robin – Psychology Learning and Teaching, 2018
The aim of this study is to investigate whether worked examples are effective in fostering psychology students' explanation competence. Explanation competence is a context-specific cognitive disposition that enables a person to construct a causal model of an observable psychological phenomenon by drawing on psychological theories. We set up a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Instructional Materials, Psychology, College Students
Abdullah, Helmi – Asia-Pacific Forum on Science Learning and Teaching, 2018
One of the fundamental problems for the college students is not being able to solve the multi-concept physics problems. The reason is that the problem solving strategies is limited to known-asked strategy (traditional strategy).Though this strategy can only be used to solve the problems of mono-concept physics. Therefore, this research on the use…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, College Students, Physics, Science Instruction
Espey, Molly – Higher Education Research and Development, 2018
This study examines students' perceptions of the development of academic and critical thinking skills in college, with a specific focus on team-based learning (TBL), an active learning strategy designed to increase student interaction and engagement. Six hundred and fifty students in five different courses were surveyed at the beginning of the…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Thinking Skills, Active Learning, Cooperative Learning
Mahdi, Omar Rabeea; Nassar, Islam A.; Almuslamani, Hashem Ali Issa – International Journal of Higher Education, 2020
Investigating the use of case studies as a teaching strategy to enhance the critical thinking skills of the students is the basic objective of this study. By discovering content and procedural issues, best practices are investigated and ways are discovered to foster critical thinking, as a result of which the students tend to develop the ability…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Critical Thinking, Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods
Passante, Gina; Kohnle, Antje – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2019
Time dependence is of fundamental importance for the description of quantum systems, but is particularly difficult for students to master. We describe the development and evaluation of a combined simulation-tutorial to support the development of visual understanding of time dependence in quantum mechanics. The associated interactive simulation…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Simulation, Quantum Mechanics
Nejmaoui, Nabila – English Language Teaching, 2019
In the 21st century where information has become easily available and accessible, education has shifted its attention to teaching students how to process and think critically about the information they receive. Welcoming the changes that education constantly witnesses, the field of English Language Teaching (ELT) has embraced the integration of…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Critical Thinking
Darby, Norazlinda Mohd; Rashid, Abdullah Mat – Journal of Education and Learning, 2017
Critical Thinking Disposition is known as an important factor that drives a student to use Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) in order to solve engineering drawing problems. Infusing them while teaching the subject may enhance students' disposition and higher order thinking skills. However, no research has been done in critical thinking…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Critical Thinking, Personality Traits, Thinking Skills
Alshurman, Wael Mohammad – Educational Research and Reviews, 2017
This study aimed to investigate the effects of the first part of the CoRT program for teaching thinking (BREADTH) on the development of communication skills among a sample of students from Al al-Bayt University in Jordan. The study sample consisted of all the students enrolled in the training session for the first part of the CoRT program held by…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Thinking Skills, College Students, Foreign Countries
Castro, Mary Nerissa T. – Online Submission, 2019
Reading is the prime foundation of one's academic and social status. However, this vital skill is what most students lack attention and interest. As a result, it deteriorates their critical thinking skills. To address the problem, Harvey Daniel introduced his literature circle strategy. It showcases different features that likely aid student's…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Thinking Skills, Reading Comprehension, College Students
Wynn, Charles T.; Mosholder, Richard S.; Larsen, Carolee A. – Journal of College Teaching & Learning, 2016
This article presents a problem-based learning (PBL) model for teaching a college U.S. history survey course (U.S. history since 1890) designed to promote postformal thinking skills and identify and explain thinking systems inherent in adult complex problem-solving. We also present the results of a study in which the outcomes of the PBL model were…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, History Instruction, Thinking Skills, Teaching Methods