Teaching critical thinking

• Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS Vol. 112; no. 36; pp. 11199 - 11204
• Main Authors: Holmes, N. G., Wieman, Carl E., Bonn, D. A.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States National Academy of Sciences 08.09.2015; National Acad Sciences
• Series: From the Cover
• Subjects: Algorithms; Critical thinking; Decision making; Decision Making - physiology; Educational Measurement; Experimental methods; Experiments; Feedback; Humans; Physics - education; Reproducibility of Results; Research - education; Social Sciences; Students; Students - psychology; Teaching; Teaching - methods; Thinking - physiology; Universities; critical thinking; undergraduate education; scientific reasoning; teaching experimentation; scientific teaching

The ability to make decisions based on data, with its inherent uncertainties and variability, is a complex and vital skill in the modern world. The need for such quantitative critical thinking occurs in many different contexts, and although it is an important goal of education, that goal is seldom b...