Targeting Critical Thinking Skills in a First-Year Undergraduate Research Course

Targeting Critical Thinking Skills in a First-Year Undergraduate Research Course

TH!NK is a new initiative at NC State University focused on enhancing students’ higher-order cognitive skills. As part of this initiative, I explicitly emphasized critical and creative thinking in an existing bacteriophage discovery first-year research course. In addition to the typical activities a...

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Main Author: Susan Carson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2015-08-01
Series:Journal of Microbiology & Biology Education
Subjects:
scenario
critical thinking
higher-order thinking
scientific thinking
undergraduate
research
Online Access:http://jmbesubmissions.asm.org/index.php/jmbe/article/view/935

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