Evaluation of the ARDESOS program: An initiative to improve critical thinking skills

[EN]It is desirable that reasoning, problem-solving and decision-making skills should form an integral part of our private and professional lives. Here we show how these skills can be improved through the use of the ARDESOS program. To test the effect of the program, we have also developed an assess...

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Autores: Saiz Sánchez, Carlos, Fernández Rivas, Silvia
Formato: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2012
País:España
Recursos:Universidad de Salamanca (USAL)
Repositorio:GREDOS. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Salamanca
OAI Identifier:oai:gredos.usal.es:10366/157747
Acesso em linha:http://hdl.handle.net/10366/157747
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:Critical thinking
Transference
Assessment
Instruction
Reasoning
Problem-solving
Decision-making
61 Psicología
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Resumo:[EN]It is desirable that reasoning, problem-solving and decision-making skills should form an integral part of our private and professional lives. Here we show how these skills can be improved through the use of the ARDESOS program. To test the effect of the program, we have also developed an assessment test (PENCRISAL). Our results are going in the desired direction. The ability to decide and make inductive inferences was improved, and this improvement was also seen in argumentation, although indirectly. In the future we must therefore improve our interventions in all factors, but in particular those referring to induction and problem-solving. Much remains to be done from the procedural point of view, but the preliminary results are very promising and we are convinced that our initiative has a good conceptual grounding.