Developing Critical Thinking Skills through the Use of Guided Laboratory Activities

Autor/in	Croner, Patrick
Titel	Developing Critical Thinking Skills through the Use of Guided Laboratory Activities
Quelle	In: Science Education Review, 2 (2003) 2, S.46 (13 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1446-6120
Schlagwörter	Critical Thinking; Thinking Skills; Science Activities; Middle School Students; Research Reports; Assignments; Science Process Skills; Laboratory Experiments; Interviews; Classroom Observation Techniques; Scoring Rubrics; Science Projects; Teaching Methods; Academic Achievement; Protocol Analysis; Skill Development; California + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Kritisches Denken; Denkfähigkeit; Middle school; Middle schools; Student; Students; Mittelschule; Mittelstufenschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Research report; Forschungsbericht; Assignment; Auftrag; Zuweisung; Laboratory work; Laborarbeit; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Scoring formulas; Auswertungsbogen; Science; Project; Wissenschaft; Projekt; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Schulleistung; Kompetenzentwicklung; Qualifikationsentwicklung; Kalifornien
Abstract	In a study to evaluate an approach for improving the critical thinking skills of middle school science students, 60 students were given the assignment of completing three guided laboratory activities and writing a report for each. In writing their reports, students were expected to identify the manipulated variable, identify the responding variable, write a statement of the problem, make a prediction, display the data in a well-organized table, depict the data from the table in a graph, and write a conclusion that showed how the data supported or refuted the prediction. Higher level thinking skills demonstrated by such tasks included analysis, synthesis, and evaluation. The student laboratory reports were evaluated using a comprehensive rubric. It was found that repeated use of the guided laboratory activities produced remarkable improvements in students' higher-level thinking skills. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01