{"id":4277,"date":"2015-08-17T22:31:15","date_gmt":"2015-08-18T02:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=4277"},"modified":"2015-08-24T11:39:02","modified_gmt":"2015-08-24T15:39:02","slug":"how-to-teach-students-to-think-critically","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/how-to-teach-students-to-think-critically\/","title":{"rendered":"How to teach students to think critically<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\" alt=\"SMCC-english2\" width=\"255\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Allowing students to make, and act on, quantitative comparisons between sets of data, helps them evaluate models more effectively, new research indicates.<\/p>\n<p>In an\u00a0introductory\u00a0physics laboratory course students were instructed to make and act on comparisons between datasets, and between data and models &#8211; an approach common in many areas of science. By the end of the course the students were 12 times more likely to spontaneously propose or make changes to improve the experiment than students in the control group.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pnas.org\/content\/early\/2015\/08\/12\/1505329112\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in\u00a0<em>PNAS\u00a0<\/em>on\u00a0<strong>August 17<\/strong><span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_453723367\"><span class=\"aQJ\"><strong>, 2015<\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0author<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>N. G. Holmes, Department of Physics, Stanford University, California, U.S.A.<\/p>\n<p>D. A. Bonn, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Allowing students to make, and act on, quantitative comparisons between sets of data, helps them evaluate models more effectively, new research indicates. In an\u00a0introductory\u00a0physics laboratory course students were instructed to make and act on comparisons between datasets, and between data and models &#8211; an approach common in many areas of science. By the end of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1327],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-scientifique"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-16Z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4277"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4286,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4277\/revisions\/4286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}