While the idea of teaching critical thinking has been bandied around in education circles since at least the time of John Dewey, it has taken greater prominence in the education debates with the ...

Some assessment tools which measure children's thinking skills may have provided inaccurate information about poor, urban students because they are modelled on wealthier, mostly White, populations. A ...

Colleges no longer simply want to know what their students know, but how they think. Higher-order thinking skills are “something that schools are paying a little bit more attention to these days,” ...

Our expert’s sample activities show how using free tech tools can help students learn to analyze, evaluate and create. A higher-order thinker is a critical thinker. What are the attributes of a ...

Quick, without looking at your phone, what’s your spouse’s phone number? What about the number for your parents, or children, or siblings, or best friend? Chances are that you only know, at most, a ...

Self-assessments encourage students to reflect on their skills, knowledge, learning goals, and progress in a course. These practices can range from quick, low-stakes check-ins on lecture content to in ...

As educators, we often hear about the importance of teaching critical thinking skills to our students. What we hear about less, however, are the most effective techniques for teaching those skills and ...

In a series of experiments described in Science Magazine in 2011, a trio of researchers found evidence to support a sneaking suspicion bubbling up in the minds of many Google aficionados: Frequent ...

I recently received an email from an educator friend, asking me to briefly describe the skills necessary for critical thinking. They were happy to fill in the blanks themselves from outside reading ...

Repetitive, recall-based questions fail to develop analytical skills and leave students ill-prepared for the future, despite ...