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,” ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Critical thinking – the ability to interpret, understand, analyse and synthesise information – has always been a crucial element of higher education teaching and research. It is a bulwark against ...

As a job candidate, you're likely to encounter interview questions designed to assess your critical thinking skills. Employers highly value these skills because they demonstrate your ability to ...

The skills gap, in other words, is really a pedagogy gap. South African students don’t lack potential. Many are simply ...

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 ...