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Enhancing College Students’ Critical Thinking Skills in Cooperative Groups

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Technology and Innovation in Learning, Teaching and Education (TECH-EDU 2018)

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This study examines the effects of cooperative learning interventions on college students’ critical thinking (CT) development. It presents the results of an investigation in which 19 students were assigned to work in a cooperative learning (experimental group) context, and 22 other students (control group) followed a lecture-based learning process. The development of the students’ critical thinking skills was subsequently assessed with a pre- and post-test. The results showed greater improvements in critical thinking skills among the students of the intervention group suggesting clearly that the effects of cooperative learning are very positive.

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  1. Department of Education and Psychology, Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Vila Real, Portugal

    Helena Silva & José Lopes

  2. CIIE – Centro de Investigação e Intervenção Educativas, Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação, Universidade do Porto, Rua Alfredo Allen, 4200-135, Porto, Portugal

    Helena Silva & José Lopes

  3. Department of Engineering, Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Vila Real, Portugal

    Caroline Dominguez

  4. CIDTFF, Aveiro, Portugal

    Caroline Dominguez

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Silva, H., Lopes, J., Dominguez, C. (2019). Enhancing College Students’ Critical Thinking Skills in Cooperative Groups. In: Tsitouridou, M., A. Diniz, J., Mikropoulos, T. (eds) Technology and Innovation in Learning, Teaching and Education. TECH-EDU 2018. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 993. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20954-4_13

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