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Assessing the Effectiveness of Critical Thinking Instruction

2001· article· en· 332 citations· W2066864520 on OpenAlex· 10.1353/jge.2001.0024

Why is this work in the frame?

A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

About CanadaIts subject is Canada, wherever its authors sit.

No Canadian affiliation. An affiliation-only frame, the usual design, would never have seen this work. It is one of the works that make the case for inverting the frame.

Classifier prediction

metacan-v1-d91a1de5be90

Predictions imitate two machine teachers. Scores are not calibrated prevalence probabilities.

Classifier candidate
ObservationalTheoretical or conceptual
Classifier consensus
ObservationalTheoretical or conceptual
Teacher imitation scores

Codex

Other design0.163
Theoretical or conceptual0.056
Observational0.026
Not applicable0.015
Metaresearch0.003
Bibliometrics0.002
Scholarly communication0.001
Qualitative0.001
Research integrity0.000
Bench or experimental0.000
Science and technology studies0.000
Systematic review0.000
Randomized trial0.000
Simulation or modelling0.000
Meta-analysis0.000
Case report0.000
Open science0.000
Non-randomized trial0.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.000

Gemma

Theoretical or conceptual0.964
Observational0.294
Metaresearch0.007
Not applicable0.003
Systematic review0.003
Qualitative0.003
Bibliometrics0.001
Research integrity0.001
Science and technology studies0.001
Randomized trial0.000
Simulation or modelling0.000
Bench or experimental0.000
Open science0.000
Scholarly communication0.000
Case report0.000
Non-randomized trial0.000
Meta-analysis0.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.000

Machine scores (provisional)

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Opus teacher head0.035
GPT teacher head0.416
Teacher spread
0.381 how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation status
score_only:v0-immature-baseline verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Abstract

There has been a growing trend among colleges in the United States and Canada to require all students to fulfill a requirement in "critical thinking" as part of their general education program. Critical thinking is a widely used term that includes skills in applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and evaluating information and the disposition to apply these skills (National Center for Excellence in Critical Thinking Instruction, 1991). The ability to think critically is almost always listed as one of…

Fetched live from OpenAlex and de-inverted. Abstracts are not stored in this database: the inverted indexes are 8.6 GB of the frame’s 9.3 GB of text, and the host has 13 GB free.