批判性思维及其技能研究

批判性思维的核心内容是批判性精神和批判性思维技能。批判性思维技能是一种运用批判技术和策略反思性分析和解决问题的能力。依据批判性思维的教学、训练与大学生所学学科内容的关系,批判性思维技能训练可以有一般方法、沉浸方法、灌输方法和混合方法等四种。     

Teaching Critical Thinking and Problem Defining Skills

Critical thinking and skills in defining problems have been among the goals of a computers and society course that had its credits reduced and student number increased. In an attempt to prevent worsening the students' learning, four measures were taken. The results actually improved from a failure rate of 21.5% to 0.7%. This was mainly due to tighter project structure and additional student work. Reduced course material and improved teacher preparation did not seem to have any effect, while more focused project teaching may have contributed to the decreased failure rate. Further improvements may be gained through time estimation in the problem definition process.     

英语专业学生评判性思维能力培养

评判性思维培养在当今中国英语专业学生的教育中是不可分割的一部分。评判性思维是就是对事物的性质、价值和真实性等方面做出合理的判断。可通过营造思维文化,改革教学模式和教学方法等途径培养学生的评判性思维能力,实现英语专业教学大纲提出的教学目标。     

Utilization of Analogies to Teach Critical Thinking Skills

The question is no longer whether American industry and technology can successfully compete with the Japanese–at present, it is evident that we cannot. At stake is the very survival of our national economic well-being as we move from a post-industrial economy to a high technology model. For education, the issue is whether we can learn from the Japanese and, in doing so, improve the quality and productivity of American education.     

Argument, Argumentation and Critical Thinking in Academic Writing

Academic writing has been emphasized for years among English major students, and PhD students who need to pub-lish their work in English, but few of these people could produce essays academically. The ...     

Explicitly Teaching Critical Thinking Skills in a History Course

Critical thinking skills are often assessed via student beliefs in non-scientific ways of thinking, (e.g, pseudoscience). Courses aimed at reducing such beliefs have been studied in the STEM fields with the most successful focusing on skeptical thinking. However, critical thinking is not unique to the sciences; it is crucial in the humanities and to historical thinking and analysis. We investigated the effects of a history course on epistemically unwarranted beliefs in two class sections. Beliefs were measured pre- and post-semester. Beliefs declined for history students compared to a control class and the effect was strongest for the honors section. This study provides evidence that a humanities education engenders critical thinking. Further, there may be individual differences in ability or preparedness in developing such skills, suggesting different foci for critical thinking coursework.     

大学英语精读教学中思辨能力的培养

大学英语精读课在大学课程体系中所占课时量大,受益学生最多。以大学英语精读教学内容为依托,以多媒体手段为表现形式的思辨能力训练,对学生创造性思维的形成具有重要的意义。在教学方法上,应注重民主性原则和参与性原则,要着眼于培养学生独立思考的思维创新能力。通过在大学英语课程中融入思辨能力的培养,可以取得同时实现语言课堂教学基本目标和思辨能力训练目标的双赢效果。     

英语专业学生思辨能力培养研究

由于英语学科特有的学习规律及教师教学和学生学习理念方面存在的偏差,导致了英语专业学生思辨能力的缺失,直接影响学生分析和解决问题能力的提高,抑制其创新能力的发展。这种现状已经引起了一些英语研究者的关注。互动教学是培养学生思辨能力的方法之一。     

The Use of Reflective Journals to Stimulate Critical Thinking in the Academic Internship

Reflective journals have been widely accepted throughout various educational disciplines for many years as a means of enhancing experiential learning practices. Reflective journals allow for students to gain a better understanding of a given experience and explore the levels of critical thinking as they work through the understanding and learning processes. Critical thinking involves the logical progression from mere knowledge and understanding to the highest levels of synthesis and evaluation. The immediate study presents findings of the analyses of a series of sequential reflective journals presented over the course of a semester-long internship experience. Findings indicate that reflective journals are shown to facilitate progression through the levels of critical thinking as identified in Bloom’s taxonomy and promote a higher level of understanding and application of theoretical concepts to practical experiential learning.     

高考思想政治对批判性思维的学科化测试路径与方法

在高考思想政治学科中,加强对批判性思维的考查,符合学科的性质特点,契合学科对学生发展的要求,是推进高考内容改革、推动学科核心素养评价和培养的重要途径。在深入分析考查批判性思维理据的基础上,通过考察国外高校入学考试对批判性思维进行测试的思路,提出高考思想政治学科可以通过对解读能力、分析能力、推理能力、评价能力、解释能力这5项涉及批判性思维的核心能力进行考查,并通过具体的实例阐述考查方法。基于批判性思维在高考中的考查现状,提出加强对批判性思维及其考查成分的系统性研究、结合学科特点探索批判性思维考查的方式方法、加强对批判性思维态度的考查等建议。     

大学学术英语写作中批判性思维的培养研究

批判性思维指的是能对信息进行分析、综合的高层次的认知能力。目前学生的学术英语写作中存在的问题与批判性思维的缺失有很大的关系。将批判性思维的培养融入学术英语写作教学,是培养学生创新思维能力和研究能力,提高论文写作质量的有效途径。     

专四英语写作中思辨能力培养的实践研究

文章针对当前专业英语思辨缺失的状况,在借鉴相关专业英语思辨能力培养的理论和实证研究的基础上,进行了一学期的行动研究,即如何在专四英语写作能力的培养中进行写作思辨能力训练.具体做法是:在总结学生们写作中出现的思辨能力缺失的具体情况及其原因的基础上,提出专四英语写作思辨能力培养三个阶段,并结合写作过程三词法(what,why,how),在话题讨论、教师评价、教学方法、写作评价以及中英文互译和词汇选择等方面做了说明,以期为今后的写作思辨能力教学提供实证参考和理论准备.     

论批判思维在中学研究性学习中的作用

从批判思维的一般特征出发，结合批判思维与研究性学习的相互关系，论述批判思维在中学研究性学习中的四个方面作用，即有利于培养创新精神，有利于培养学生的信息素养，有利于塑健全的人格，有利于形式综合思维能力。     

Academic and Managerial Skills of Academic Deans: A self-assessment perspective

Brazilian higher education institutions face a complex and challenging environment as the national market in education is becoming more competitive. International investment, a decrease in the population of potential students, and the proliferation of innumerable small institutions add to this complexity. Organizations are becoming flatter and the key managers within them are deans. Although deans are required to act as managerial experts, they are usually selected from the teaching body of the institution. In this paper, a group of deans from a large private institution gave their self-assessment of their academic and managerial skills. The results revealed that they tend to have a high perception of their managerial skills, even though they have no previous managerial experience or formal training. This underlines that senior academic administrators cannot simply assume that deans, by the nature of their work environment, are proficient in managerial skills; neither that they can easily identify inadequacies nor have them self-corrected. To accomplish the necessary institutional changes to face the complexities of the current globalized education market, a new assessment culture has to be implemented in the academic environment.

     

以培养思辨能力为导向的外语写作抗磨蚀教学方法研究

本文在介绍语言磨蚀研究领域中外语写作技能磨蚀的研究背景基础上,提出在外语教学中运用以培养思辨能力为导向的外语写作抗磨蚀教学方法,将对提高学习者的外语写作水平以及在外语教学中寻求外语写作抗磨蚀方案具有一定的实践意义。