Strategies for Teaching Students to Think Critically: A Meta-Analysis

Review of Educational Research

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 275-314

  Abrami, Philip C ^a   Bernard, Robert M ^a   Borokhovski, Eugene ^a   Waddington, David I ^a   Wade, C Anne ^b   Persson, Tonje ^a  

^a Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

^b Systematic Reviews Project Manager Centre for the Study of Learning and Performance   (Canada)

Author keywords

critical thinking; instructional practices; learning processes strategies

Indexed keywords

EID: 84930577935     PISSN: 00346543     EISSN: 19351046     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3102/0034654314551063     Document Type: Article

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