Search results for "kriittinen ajattelu"
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Exploring Finnish university students' perceived level of critical thinking
2015
Critical thinking is believed to be a 21 st century skill that many employers consider crucial when hiring recent graduates. However, it is debated whether critical thinking should be taught in academic foreign language courses at the tertiary level, which primarily aim to develop students’ language and communication skills. This localized, exploratory research examines Finnish university students’ self-reported critical thinking skills and dispositions after completing the compulsory academic English courses. The aim of the research is to examine what skills and dispositions students feel competent in, and discover if there is a correlation between students’ self-reported critical thinking…
University Applicants’ Critical Thinking Skills: The Case of the Finnish Educational Sciences
2016
This study investigates the quality of the critical thinking skills of applicants (n = 77) seeking entry to the faculty of educational sciences in a Finnish university and how these skills are associated with the applicant’s age, previous higher education experience, and matriculation and entrance examination scores. The data consist of the applicants’ responses to problem-solving tasks and their matriculation and entrance examination scores. Critical thinking skills were measured with comparison and argumentation tasks. The results indicate that comparison of the texts and analysis of the arguments they contained were more difficult tasks than putting forward arguments both for and against…
Validation of a modified version of the Experiences of Teaching and Learning Questionnaire
2018
Providing teaching-learning environments that foster university studentsö learning is an essential task of higher education. Valid and reliable tools for assessing them are therefore needed. This study investigates the measurement properties of a modified version of the Experiences of Teaching and Learning Questionnaire (ETLQ). Two independent data-sets (N = 1637 and N = 1711) were collected from Finnish university students. Confirmatory factor analyses resulted in a modified measurement model for the ETLQ, consisting of 11 factors. The first three factors assessing the teaching-learning environment – Teaching for Understanding, Disciplinary Understanding and Supportive Teaching – were indi…
Teaching master's degree students to read research literature
2017
The skill to read research literature critically belongs in every university graduate’s toolbox. I have attempted to teach this skill in a master’s degree level course in programming languages over 15 years using, at various times, simulated conferences, voluntary reading exercises, evidence-based practice training, and a flipped classroom with mandatory reading assignments. I discuss my experience and analyze preliminary qualitative data on the use of evidence-based practice and a flipped classroom for this purpose. I present no firm conclusions, but expect that future work (by me or others) will be able to use my experience as a baseline for better teaching of research literature reading.…
Myrkkymysteeri : toiminnallinen demokratiakasvatuspeli
2022
The global politics of celebrity humanitarianism
2014
Propaganda Barometer : A Supportive Tool to Improve Media Literacy Towards Building a Critically Thinking Society
2018
To smartly consume a huge and constantly growing volume of information, to identify fake news and resist propaganda in the context of Information Warfare, to improve personal critical thinking capabilities and increase media literacy, people require supportive environment with sophisticated technology facilitated tools. With rapid development of media, widespread popularity of social networks and fast growing amount of information distribution channels, propaganda and information warfare enter an absolutely new digital technology supported cyber era. Propaganda mining is not a trivial and very time consuming process for human. And, as with any new technology, human need certain time to unde…
Opettajiksi opiskelevien käsitykset hyvästä opettajuudesta ja opetuksesta, ajattelun taidoista sekä koulutuksen antamista valmiuksista tulevaan työhön
2011
Pro gradu –tutkielmassa tutkitaan opettajiksi opiskelevien käsityksiä hyvästä opettajuudesta ja opetuksesta sekä opettajan tarvitsemista ajattelun taidoista. Lisäksi selvitetään, miten koulutus heidän mielestään vastaa tulevan ammatin haasteisiin. Omaan ammattiin liittyvät käsitykset, uskomukset ja ihanteet ohjaavat merkittävästi opettajan toimintaa. Opiskelijoiden ennakkokäsitykset tulisi konstruktivismin pääperiaatteiden mukaan huomioida koulutuksen alkuvaiheista lähtien. Tutkimuskysymyksiä tarkastellaan sekä yleisellä tasolla että matematiikan opetukseen suhteutettuna. Tutkimusaineisto on kerätty käyttämällä eläytymismenetelmää (N = 69), parihaastattelua (N = 5) sekä avointa internetkyse…