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Entry Assessment of Student Learning Preconditions in Higher Education: Implications for the Transition from Secondary to Tertiary Education in Germa…
2020
The acquisition of domain-specific knowledge and interdisciplinary skills such as critical thinking is increasingly gaining significance as key learning outcomes in higher education that are crucial for all professionals and engaged citizens and that enable lifelong learning. Despite this socio-political consensus, up until the last decade there have only been a few evidence-based insights into the competencies of higher education students. Therefore, the Germany-wide research program Modelling and Measuring Competencies in Higher Education (KoKoHs) was established in 2011 by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research. In the 85 projects, theoretical-conceptual competence models and cor…
Metacognitive Awareness Teaching Tool Kit (MATTK). Reflective teaching for critical thinking and creativity development in classroom.
2016
Situation awareness has long been recognized as an important variable in teacher performance. Research to date has focused on identifying characteristics of situation awareness for individuals, not on the behaviors and processes associated with situation awareness. The purpose of this review is to delineate and identify characteristics of teacher metacognitive awareness. In addition, implications are discussed and research questions are outlined that target the measurement and training of situation awareness. The research has examined the positive correlation between the meta cognitive awareness of teachers and the development of two soft skills (critical thinking and creativity) in student…
The Role of Formal Education in Developing Critical Thinking Skills of Engineering Students
2020
The hereby paper intends to acknowledge and discuss the concept of critical thinking and the influence of this ability on engineering students. The purpose of this research is to establish the criteria according to which some students think more critically compared to other students in the same field of study. Logic is a term that seems simple, although very few know how to access that logical part of the human brain. This research has shown that the students’ level of critical thinking is not related to the year of study. Therefore, there are no activities in faculties that have a significant influence on the development of critical thinking. Moreover, it has resulted that female participa…
Fostering teenagers' assessment of information reliability: Effects of a classroom intervention focused on critical source dimensions
2018
International audience; Increased amounts of information available from the Internet have triggered new demands for students to evaluate information quality. Our study presents an instructional intervention aimed at fostering ninth grade students' critical evaluation of source reliability. The intervention was grounded into theories of multiple text comprehension and used an analytic framework that defines the core source dimensions of author position (competence), author motivation (intention), and media quality (pre-publication validation). Compared to controls, trained students 1) reduced the score assigned to links containing less reliable information in the three critical source dimens…
Aktivitātes tālmācības vidusskolas 10. klases angļu valodas stundās pašvadītas mācīšanās pilnveidošanai
2021
Darba autore nesen sāka strādāt par angļu valodas skolotāju tālmācības vidusskolā. Pētījuma mērķis bija pielietot praksē uzdevumus, kas pilnveidotu pašvadītas mācīšanās prasmes tālmācības skolas 10. klases angļu valodas stundās. Pētījuma bāze bija 49 tālmācības skolēni, kuriem bija jāveic ikmēneša uzdevumos iestrādāts pašvērtējums un atgriezeniskā saite, attiecīgi tika veikta kvalitatīva datu vākšana un analīze. Tika apzināts, kādas pašvadītas mācīšanās prasmes audzēkņi ir apguvuši un kādi izaicinājumi joprojām pastāv. Rezultātā tika ieskicētas turpmāk veicamās aktivitātes pašvadītas mācīšanās sekmēšanai. Pētījuma atziņas var izmantot skolotāji, kuri saskaras ar tiešsaistes mācību izaicināj…
Assessment of University Students’ Critical Thinking: Next Generation Performance Assessment
2019
Following employers’ criticisms and recent societal developments, policymakers and educators have called for students to develop a range of generic skills such as critical thinking (“twenty-first c...
From led light signboards to the Planck’s constant
2018
Recent studies have highlighted an alarming decline in young people’s interest towards the study of scientific subjects, often considered interesting but not easily understood and appreciated by students. In particular, the introduction of Modern Physics (MP) key-topics at secondary school level is a difficult and complex task because MP involves abstract ideas and requires a strong mathematical background. In this communication we present and discuss the results of an inquiry-based teaching/learning path aimed at surmounting the difficulties of an exclusively theoretical approach to the introduction of MP topics. In particular, we planned and realized an inquiry-driven learning environment…
utilización de la música popular urbana en la educación primaria y secundaria
2021
Durante la última década ha crecido el interés por incorporar en los diferentes niveles curriculares las identidades y preferencias musicales de los estudiantes, las cuales pertenecen fundamentalmente al género de la música popular urbana. Con el objetivo de profundizar en la utilización educativa de este tipo de música, se ha realizado una revisión sistemática en la que se han analizado 159 trabajos. Entre las conclusiones, destaca el rechazo a la misma por ser considerada estéticamente inferior y poco adecuada para el ámbito escolar. Sin embargo, puede aportar mejoras en la atención, la motivación, la participación y el trabajo colaborativo, así como el desarrollo de un pensamiento crític…
Performance Assessment of Generic and Domain-Specific Skills in Higher Education Economics
2020
Following criticisms by employers about academic graduates’ lack of 21st century skills, students need to develop skills such as professional knowledge, critical thinking and problem solving. Accordingly, there is a demand for suitable assessments of these skills. One approach is to develop a performance assessment using tasks adapted from real-world decision-making and judgment situations that students and graduates have to face in academic and professional domains. Such tasks employ real-life scenarios and require generic and domain-specific skills in different facets to handle a given problem adequately. In this paper, we present a newly developed performance assessment that aims to meas…
Technology-Supported Guidance Model to Support the Development of Critical Thinking Among Undergraduate Nursing Students in Clinical Practice: Protoc…
2021
Background Critical thinking is an essential set of skills in nursing education, and nursing education therefore needs a sharper focus on effective ways to support the development of these skills, especially through the implementation of technological tools in nursing education. Objective The aim of this study protocol is to assess the feasibility of a technology-supported guidance model grounded in the metacognition theory for nursing students in clinical practice. Methods Both quantitative (research questionnaires) and qualitative (focus group interviews) approaches will be used to collect data for a feasibility study with an exploratory, flexible mixed methods design to test a newly dev…