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Posted in Critical Thinking, Education on November 29, 2006 | Leave a Comment »

In an email exchange with Jeff Ricker, who is putting together a good resource site on critical thinking for faculty at Scottsdale Community College, I sketched the following scenario: “I teach business studies, but my students are depressingly bad at basic critical thinking activities – for example they have trouble producing a piece of written [...]

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