Evaluation of the ARDESOS program: an initiative to improve critical thinking skills

  1. Carlos Saiz 1
  2. Silvia F. Rivas 1
  1. 1 Universidad de Salamanca
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    Universidad de Salamanca

    Salamanca, España

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Revista:
Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

ISSN: 1527-9316

Año de publicación: 2012

Volumen: 11

Número: 2

Páginas: 34-51

Tipo: Artículo

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Resumen

It is desirable that reasoning, problem-solving and decision-making skills should form an integral part of our private and professional lives. Here we show how these skills can be improvedthrough the use of the ARDESOSprogram. To test the effect of the program, we have also developed an assessment test (PENCRISAL). Our results are going in the desired direction.The ability todecide and make inductive inferences was improved, and this improvement was also seen in argumentation, although indirectly. In the future we must therefore improve our interventionsin all factors, but in particular those referring to induction and problem-solving. Much remains to be done from the procedural point of view, but the preliminary results are very promising and we are convinced that our initiative has a good conceptual grounding.

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