Research and Teaching: Are We Keeping the Promise? Investigation of Students' Critical Thinking Growth

by: Justin H. Carmel and Ellen J. Yezierski

This study was conducted in a chemistry course for nonscience majors offered as part of a liberal education core curriculum at a large public university. Students enrolled in the class were given the Lawson Classroom Test of Scientific Reasoning as a pre- and postcourse measure of their scientific reasoning ability, a subset of critical thinking.

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Type Journal ArticlePub Date 5/1/2013Stock # jcst13_042_05_71Volume 042Issue 05

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