The discipline-independent course helps students build critical thinking skills while giving faculty a framework to integrate ...

Harvey Mudd professor Vivien Hamilton engages students in open inquiry with a focus on valuing multiple perspectives. How does one develop students’ ability to think critically, read carefully, ...

For the past couple years, I've been working as a science communicator on two fronts, as a freelance science writer and a community college Earth science instructor. I've seen, from many angles, the ...

The University of Colorado will suspend a requirement that students take a “critical thinking” course before graduation — a measure taken amid budget constraints. Students enrolled in the College of ...

1. Why Do You Think Applied Critical Thinking is Important in Your Domain? When we consider Applied Critical Thinking, this really is the crux of teaching in 2020. We are all experts in our own fields ...

All first year students at the University of Technology Sydney could soon be required to take a compulsory maths course in an attempt to give them some numerical thinking skills. The new course would ...

Several recent studies identifying the weak spots in both American K-12 and college education, like Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa’s A movement to implement critical thinking courses peaked around l980 ...

Critical thinking is a vital, yet often neglected, skill. In higher education, Chris Griffiths, author of “The Creative Thinking Handbook,” noted in a TLNT blog article that critical thinking is “the ...

Ultimately, the question every professor should ask is this: Is this a task students need to be able to perform on their own?

Reducing learning to just preparation for standardized tests isn’t a uniquely American problem. In the Arab world, one organization is fighting to bring a little more creativity and problem-solving ...