Critical thinking exercises for chemists: Are they subject-specific?

Active Learning in Higher Education

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 152-167

  Garratt, John ^a   Overton, Tina ^b   Tomlinson, Jane ^a   Clow, Doug ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

^c OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

critical thinking; designing investigations; evaluating arguments; group discussions; making judgements; skill development

Indexed keywords

EID: 84992806459     PISSN: 14697874     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1469787400001002005     Document Type: Article

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