The Importance of Facilitating Critical Reasoning in the New Millennium: Some New Evidence. Working Paper.

Autor/in	Pithers, Bob
Institution	Technology Univ.-Sydney, Broadway (Australia). Research Centre for Vocational Education and Training.
Titel	The Importance of Facilitating Critical Reasoning in the New Millennium: Some New Evidence. Working Paper.
Quelle	(2000), (8 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Adult Educators; Critical Thinking; Developed Nations; Educational Research; Foreign Countries; Higher Education; Teacher Effectiveness; Test Norms; Test Results; Thinking Skills; Vocational Education Teachers; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Adult education teacher; Adult education; Adult training; Teacher; Teachers; Adult educator; Erwachsenenbildner; Erwachsenenbildung; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Kritisches Denken; Developed countries; Industriestaat; Industrieland; Bildungsforschung; Pädagogische Forschung; Ausland; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Effectiveness of teaching; Instructional effectiveness; Lehrerleistung; Unterrichtserfolg; Testnorm; Denkfähigkeit; Ausbilder; Australien
Abstract	A study investigated the critical reasoning skills of a group of 111 Australian adult tertiary students who were practicing adult vocational and further education teachers and trainers, using the recently developed Critical Reasoning Test (CRT). It examined some variables that might be expected to affect critical reasoning scores. These tertiary teachers' mean CRT score was found to be only at or below the "average" levels of other professional, non-teacher normative samples. No significant between-group CRT mean differences were found for these students' year of course, graduate/non-graduate status, age, or gender. In conclusion, the effective teaching-learning of the skills and dispositions underlying critical reasoning does not appear to be progressing well in at least some areas of tertiary education. Such evidence suggested that more attention should be given to facilitating this important area of student learning in universities in the new millennium. (YLB)
Anmerkungen	For full text: http://www.uts.edu.au/fac/edu/rcvet/working%20papers/WP0052Pithers.pdf.
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC