| Owner: |
Yetunde Kolajo
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| Owner Email: |
y.kolajo@kent.ac.uk
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| Paper Title: |
The Challenges of Planning, Enacting, and Assessing Critical Thinking
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| Session Title: |
Improving Students' Learning, Achievement, Critical Thinking, and Participation in the Real World
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| Paper Type: |
Paper
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| Presentation Date: |
4/20/2020
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| Presentation Location: |
Online
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| Descriptors: |
Critical Thinking, Curriculum Design and Evaluation, Higher Education
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| Methodology: |
Qualitative
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| Author(s): |
Yetunde Kolajo, Flinders University; Lindsey N. Conner, Flinders University
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| Unit: |
SIG-Educational Change
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| Abstract: |
Developing students’ CT (Critical Thinking) is fundamental for students to develop skills for future study and employment. To prepare students for evaluating the changing world, there needs to be planning, enactment and assessment of CT in all fields of study at universities. How are lecturers supporting the development of students’ CT? Our findings report on a qualitative case study in a first-year chemistry course that explored how lectures plan their teaching and what and how students are taught and assessed in relation to developing CT. In this case, CT was not embedded into planning, enacting and assessing the curriculum, and therefore, there was little intentionality for developing CT. The implications for planning for CT, including changes to assessment are emphasized.
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| DOI: |
https://doi.org/10.3102/1574193
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