The Effects of Using Socratic Hint to Enhance Critical Thinking Skill of Elementary 4th Grade Students

• Main Authors: I-HSIU LIN, 林怡秀
• Other Authors: Nian-Shing Chen
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2018
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/9458wx

碩士 === 國立中山大學 === 資訊管理學系研究所 === 106 === Critical thinking is one of the most important skill in 21 century, along with other skills such as problem solving, creativity, collaboration, communication and innovation. Nowadays, in order to have good performance in any field or career path, one is required to be good at using their critical thinking skill to solve every problem he/she faces, understand which option is better and and most optimum. Past research had shown that critical thinking skill can be enhanced and cultivated along with numerous studies exploring different methods to improve one’s critical thinking skill. These studies were mostly focused on junior and senior high school students, college students and adults. However, past research had also shown that critical thinking skill should be cultivated starting from an early age. Therefore, the objective of this study is to develope a system to enhance the critical thinking ability of elementary school students. This study mirrored the traditional way of enhancing critical thinking skills by providing students with short films, asking them critical thinking questions regarding events in the film. Prior to answering the designed critical thinking questions, Socratic hints were provided to guide their thinking and help them to think much deeper about the critical thinking questions. The results show that there was significant different between two groups, who was provided with Socratic hints and who were not provided with. Yet, there was no significant different between two groups where both were provided with Socratic hints, with one group who was required to answer Socratic hints and another not required to answer. The suggestion for future research is according to the answer from student, the system should give them some feedback, such like a following question to lead them think much deeper.