Download or read book The Effect of Higher order Questions on Critical Thinking Skills microform written by Robert Donald Renaud and published by National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada. This book was released on 2002 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One way to assess the quality of education in post-secondary institutions is through the use of performance indicators. One category of performance indicators, known as process indicators, focus on the processes of an institution, or in other words, what the institution itself does to promote the learning and development of its students. Another category of performance indicators is outcome indicators or student outcomes, which represent the ways in which students learn and develop as a result of attending college or university. Studies that have compared currently popular process indicators (e.g., library size, percentage of faculty with PhD) found that after controlling for incoming student ability, these process indicators tend to be weakly associated with student outcomes (Renaud, 1997). One important student outcome is the development of critical thinking. While much research has found that students increase their critical thinking skills as a result of attending college (see reviews by McMillan, 1987 and Pascarella & Terenzini, 1991), little is known about what goes on during the college experience that contributes to this. The main purpose of this research was to examine the degree to which asking higher-order questions on tests and assignments as a process variable is related to gains in critical thinking skills among college students as an outcome variable. A secondary purpose was whether gains in student critical thinking skills would be more clearly detected using either a subject-specific or a general measure of critical thinking. The present research consisted of four studies that used different designs, samples, and instruments. One study compared amount of higher-order questions on tests and assignments in actual classes to pretest-posttest gains in critical thinking, while two studies used experimental or quasi-experimental designs to compare groups of students given lower- and higher-order questions in actual classes, and one study was a true experiment done in a laboratory that compared lower- and higher-order review questions in terms of pretest-posttest gains while controlling for possible confounding variables. Overall, the findings of this research indicate that (1) students are more likely to improve their critical thinking skills when they have answered higher-order questions in their coursework; and (2) larger pretest-posttest gains were found when the tests of critical thinking contained questions that were subject-specific (e.g., introductory psychology) rather than questions that focused on general topics.
Download or read book The Effect of Higher Cognitive Level Questions on Critical Thinking written by Donna Barstad Schwartz and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Study of the Effects of High Level Cognitive Questions on the Levels of Response and Critical Thinking Abilities in Students of Two Social Problems Classes written by Harry James Ghee and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book How to Assess Higher order Thinking Skills in Your Classroom written by Susan M. Brookhart and published by ASCD. This book was released on 2010 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers how to develop and use test questions and other assessments that reveal how well students can analyze, reason, solve problems, and think creatively.
Download or read book The Influence of High and Low level Questions on Critical Thinking Ability and the Retention of Gains in Critical Thinking Ability Effected by Question Types written by David Caravan and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Assessment of Higher Order Thinking Skills written by Gregory Schraw and published by IAP. This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines the assessment of higher order thinking skills from the perspectives of applied cognitive psychology and measurement theory. The volume considers a variety of higher order thinking skills, including problem solving, critical thinking, argumentation, decision making, creativity, metacognition, and self-regulation. Fourteen chapters by experts in learning and measurement comprise four sections which address conceptual approaches to understanding higher order thinking skills, cognitively oriented assessment models, thinking in the content domains, and practical assessment issues. The volume discusses models of thinking skills, as well as applied issues related to the construction, validation, administration and scoring of perfomancebased, selected-response, and constructed-response assessments. The goal of the volume is to promote a better theoretical understanding of higher order thinking in order to facilitate instruction and assessment of those skills among students in all K-12 content domains, as well as professional licensure and cetification settings.
Download or read book Assessing Higher Order Thinking Skills written by C. Philip Kearney and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Promoting Rigor Through Higher Level Questioning written by Todd Stanley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Promoting Rigor Through Higher Level Questioning equips teachers with effective questioning strategies and:
Download or read book Thinking Beyond the Test written by Paul A. Wagner and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-12-07 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the wake of initiatives such as No Child Left Behind and the use of high-stakes testing, the emphasis in schools has been on drill and practice for the test. Genuine understanding and critical thinking have been increasingly shortchanged. As a result, students have fewer opportunities to advance their insight into cognitive and emotional challenges, even though both teachers and parents recognize the importance of developing deliberative and reflective thinking skills. This book uniquely combines two things. First, it provides resources for classroom teachers in grades 3 – 6 that make it possible for them, at a moment’s notice, to take advantage of a teachable moment by drawing students into productive intellectual discussions. Second, it gives the reader an overview of the rationale and the research base for engaging students in educational activities that are truly intellectual and that are not limited to training for testing success.
Download or read book The Effect of Probing Questions Within a Value Conflict and Standard Social Studies Content on the Critical Thinking Skills of Primary Age Children written by Donald James Baden and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Effects of Modeling and Feedback Variables on Higher order Questioning Skills written by Karen Emily Shellabarger Claus and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book High Level Thinking and Questioning Strategies Research Brief written by Ella Burton and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Higher-order thinking is an instructional strategy supported by research. Often referred to as critical thinking skills, it is more than simple recall of facts or information. It is a function of the interaction between cognitive strategies, meta-cognition, and nonstrategic knowledge when solving problems. Higher-order thinking is based on the concepts in the cognitive domain of Bloom's Taxonomy. It suggests that some types of learning require more cognitive processing than others. Bloom's Taxonomy suggests that skills involving analysis, evaluation and synthesis are of a higher order, requiring different instructional practices. It also suggests that higher-order thinking involves "the learning of complex judgmental skills such as critical thinking and problem solving." Higher-order thinking is thought to be more useful because such skills (analysis, synthesis) are considered more likely to be useable in situations other than those in which the skill was initially learned. Questioning is one of the "essential nine" instructional practices identified by Marzano, Pickering & Pollock, 2001). It is closely linked to higher-level thinking and Bloom's Taxonomy. While teachers' use of questions is predominantly low-level, professional development can help teachers develop the skill to design and use questions that engage students in higher-level instructional processes. (Contains 14 resources.).
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Download or read book The Effect of Class Size on Critical Thinking Skills written by Edwin Albert Bostrom and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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