The impact of attitudes beliefs and cognitive reflection on the development of critical thinking skills in online students
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Authors | Boban Simonovic, Katia Vione, Dean Fido, Edward Stupple, James Martin and Richard Clarke |
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Abstract | Learning and development of critical thinking (CT) skills in higher education is essential for academic achievement. The following experiment is the first to examine the effect of online student’s perceptions and attitudes towards CT across dimensions of confidence, valuing, misconceptions, cognitive reflection, and authors writing. Furthermore, a CT intervention was developed, and the effects of the intervention examined with an aim to help students improve their grade point average. The analyses demonstrated that student’s confidence and cognitive reflection predict academic achievement. Moreover, the online CT intervention was associated with improved students’ CT attitudes, skills, and academic performance. Significant interactions were observed between time (pre- and post-intervention) and intervention in cognitive reflection, confidence, beliefs, and attitudes related to CT, and student grade point average (GPA, as a measure of student’s performance on online modules). It was concluded that the CT can be taught and that an intervention based on “how to think” rather than a “what to think” mixed approach can help online students develop CT, strengthen their confidence in CT and help students improve their academic performance in an online setting. |
Keywords | critical thinking; cognitive reflection; critical thinking confidence; teaching,; learning |
Year | 2022 |
Publisher | The Online Learning Consortium |
ISSN | 2472-5730 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/vt9ks |
Web address (URL) | https://olj.onlinelearningconsortium.org/index.php/olj/article/view/2725 |
Funder | University of Derby |
Output status | Published |
Publication dates | |
Online | 02 Jun 2022 |
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Accepted | 2022 |
Deposited | 24 Jun 2022 |
Journal | Online Learning |
Journal citation | 26 (2), pp. 254-274 |
Accepted author manuscript | License All rights reserved File Access Level Open |
Publisher's version | License All rights reserved File Access Level Open |
https://repository.derby.ac.uk/item/9740w/the-impact-of-attitudes-beliefs-and-cognitive-reflection-on-the-development-of-critical-thinking-skills-in-online-students
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