Instructional effects on critical thinking: Performance on ill-defined issues

Learning and Instruction

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 322-334

  Angeli, Charoula ^a   Valanides, Nicos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

Critical thinking; Ill defined problems; Problem solving; Teaching approaches

Indexed keywords

EID: 62049083976     PISSN: 09594752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.learninstruc.2008.06.010     Document Type: Article

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