Abstract Student Evaluations of Teaching (SETs) do not measure teaching effectiveness,
and their widespread use by university administrators in decisions about faculty hiring …

Gracias al desarrollo del aprendizaje basado en competencias, se ha producido un gran
interés por el pensamiento crítico en la educación superior. La empleabilidad, por otra …

Critical thinking is a competency which is being required from students in their personal and
professional life. For this reason, universities must do their most to include it in their syllabus …

Critical thinking features in university syllabi, programmes, and classes both in the UK and
US and is considered one of the primary learning outcomes of higher education. Yet …

In this article, I address the paradox that university grade point averages have increased for
decades, whereas the time students invest in their studies has decreased. I argue that one …

Teachers play a crucial role in attaining a major objective of higher education: fostering
students' critical thinking (CT). Yet, little is known about how to foster teachers' own CT-skills …

There is a need for effective methods to teach critical thinking (CT). One instructional method
that seems promising is comparing correct and erroneous worked examples (ie, contrasting …

Digital technologies offer myriad access to learning; entree to education is still a necessity
for economic success, with access increasingly promoted to those wishing access to …

The aim of this study was to identify characteristics that are related to higher education
teachers'(N= 263) Cognitive Reflection Test (CRT) performance, which assesses an …

Nowadays, both on-line and" off-line" lives seem to be bound to the terms of democratization
of information. While this brings clear advantages, does free and fast access to plenty of …