A Comparison of Methods for Teaching Critical Thinking Skills for U.S. Army Officers

Autor/inn/en	Schumm, Walter R.; Webb, Farrell J.; Turek, David E.; Jones, Kenneth D.; Ballard, Glenn E.
Titel	A Comparison of Methods for Teaching Critical Thinking Skills for U.S. Army Officers
Quelle	In: American Journal of Distance Education, 20 (2006) 1, S.39-50 (12 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0892-3647
DOI	10.1207/s15389286ajde2001_4
Schlagwörter	Teaching Methods; Critical Thinking; Leadership Training; Thinking Skills; Administrator Education; Distance Education; Military Personnel; Participant Satisfaction; Program Effectiveness; Conventional Instruction + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Kritisches Denken; Führungslehre; Denkfähigkeit; Distance study; Distance learning; Fernunterricht
Abstract	The U.S. Army has been conducting a variety of management education programs for commissioned officers. In both its traditional and its new distance education programs, the Army has established a goal of improving critical thinking and reasoning skills among its students to prepare its future leaders and managers more effectively for the challenges of the twenty-first century. For both the distance learning and the traditional education programs, the successful promotion of critical reasoning and thinking skills appeared to be among the most critical factors in directly or indirectly predicting student satisfaction with instruction, overall training, and usefulness or relevance of training. Distance education formats proved at least as, if not more, successful on a variety of comparison measures with traditional classroom formats when evaluated by field grade student officers. By logical extension, distance education can be expected to be a useful approach for teaching critical thinking skills for civilian management and leadership training programs. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10