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Record W2311583131

ENCOURAGING CRITICAL THINKING: "BUT . .. WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?"

2000· article· en· W2311583131 on OpenAlexaff
Heather Hemming

Bibliographic record

VenueMcGill Journal of Education / Revue des sciences de l'éducation de McGill · 2000
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicEducation and Critical Thinking Development
Canadian institutionsAcadia University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsClichéSloganCriticismHumanitiesEpistemologyCritical thinkingPhilosophyVaguenessSociologyPolitical science
DOInot available

Abstract

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ABSTRACT. Encouraging critical thinking requires refinement and growth in the process. While educators often agree that critical thinking is valuable and should be a part of the curriculum there is a pervasive vagueness about what this means. In order that critical thinking be understood, that it be regarded as more than a cliche or slogan, sorne clarification is necessary. This article explores the nature of critical thinking through a discussion on the use of logic, the role of the critical spirit, dialogical reasoning, assessment of criteria, the relationship of content, and the relationship of caring and connections with criticism. RESUME. Si les educateurs s'entendent souvent pour dire que la pensee critique est une chose valable qui devrait etre integree aux programmes d'etudes, elle n'en reste pas moins une notion vaguement definie. Certaines precisions s'imposent donc si l'on veut que cette notion soit bien comprise et ne soit plus consideree comme un simple cliche ou slogan. Cet article traite de la nature de la pensee critique par le biais d'une analyse portant sur l'usage de la logique, le role de l'esprit critique, le raisonnement dialogique, l'evaluation des criteres, la pertinence du contenu et de l'attachement et les liens avec la critique.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.006
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies, Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.400
Threshold uncertainty score0.997

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0060.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0050.001
Scholarly communication0.0010.003
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0040.000

Machine scores (provisional)

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.

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

Opus teacher head0.207
GPT teacher head0.435
Teacher spread0.228 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2000
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