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Explicitly Teaching Critical Thinking Skills in a History Course
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McLaughlin, Anne Collins; McGill, Alicia Ebbitt – Science & Education, 2017
Critical thinking skills are often assessed via student beliefs in non-scientific ways of thinking, (e.g, pseudoscience). Courses aimed at reducing such beliefs have been studied in the STEM fields with the most successful focusing on skeptical thinking. However, critical thinking is not unique to the sciences; it is crucial in the humanities and…
Descriptors: Direct Instruction, Critical Thinking, Thinking Skills, History Instruction