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Direct linkMario Caracuel González; Alicia Benarroch Benarroch; Teresa Lupión Cobos; Ángel Blanco López – Research in Science Education, 2024
This study addresses the issue of preference for natural versus synthetic products in different contexts, specifically food, medicines, and cosmetics. Participants were 52 students aged 14-15 years from two schools. We analysed the choices and justifications offered by 28 students from one of the schools before and after receiving an instructional…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Preferences, Food, Context Effect
Download full textMerma-Molina, Gladys; Gavilán-Martín, Diego; Baena-Morales, Salvador; Urrea-Solano, Mayra – Education Sciences, 2022
According to UNESCO, critical thinking (CT) is a strategic skill for the 21st century, as it is associated with attitudes of personal and social change and improvement. Based on this, the objectives of this study were (1) to find out the possible relationships between CT and effective personality (EP) and (2) to determine the extent to which EP…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Personality Traits, Sustainable Development, Foreign Countries
Casas-Quiroga, Lucía; Crujeiras-Pérez, Beatriz – International Journal of Science Education, 2020
This study is framed in the social perspective of Epistemology of Science, and it aims to examine the epistemic operations performed by high school students while engaged in a role-play about food safety that requires them to engage in both argumentation and decision-making practices. The epistemic operations are examined on two different levels:…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Grade 11, Science Process Skills
Saiz, Carlos; Rivas, Silvia F. – Educational Research Quarterly, 2016
The objective of this research is to ascertain whether new instructional techniques can improve critical thinking. To achieve this goal, two different instruction techniques (ARDESOS--group 1--and DIAPROVE--group 2--) were studied and a pre-post assessment of critical thinking in various dimensions such as argumentation, inductive reasoning,…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Teaching Methods, Instructional Innovation, Student Improvement
Barberà, Elena; Layne, Ludmila; Gunawardena, Charlotte N. – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2014
This study was conducted at colleges in three countries (United States, Venezuela, and Spain) and across three academic disciplines (engineering, education, and business), to examine how experienced faculty define competencies for their discipline, and design instructional interaction for online courses. A qualitative research design employing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Intellectual Disciplines, Colleges, Teacher Attitudes
Saiz, Carlos; Rivas, Silvia F. – Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2011
It is desirable that reasoning, problem-solving and decision-making skills should form an integral part of our private and professional lives. Here we show how these skills can be improved through the use of the ARDESOS program. To test the effect of the program, we have also developed an assessment test (PENCRISAL). Our results are going in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Problem Solving, Logical Thinking, Inferences
