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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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An Examination of the Effects of Argument Mapping on Students' Memory and Comprehension Performance
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Dwyer, Christopher P.; Hogan, Michael J.; Stewart, Ian – Thinking Skills and Creativity, 2013
Argument mapping (AM) is a method of visually diagramming arguments to allow for easy comprehension of core statements and relations. A series of three experiments compared argument map reading and construction with hierarchical outlining, text summarisation, and text reading as learning methods by examining subsequent memory and comprehension…
Descriptors: Memory, Active Learning, Teaching Methods, Learning Strategies
The Halpern Critical Thinking Assessment and Real-World Outcomes: Cross-National Applications
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Butler, Heather A.; Dwyer, Christopher P.; Hogan, Michael J.; Franco, Amanda; Rivas, Silvia F.; Saiz, Carlos; Almeida, Leandro S. – Thinking Skills and Creativity, 2012
The Halpern Critical Thinking Assessment (HCTA) is a reliable measure of critical thinking that has been validated with numerous qualitatively different samples and measures of academic success (Halpern, 2010a). This paper presents several cross-national applications of the assessment, and recent work to expand the validation of the HCTA with…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Measures (Individuals), Behavior, Predictive Validity
The Evaluation of Argument Mapping as a Learning Tool: Comparing the Effects of Map Reading versus Text Reading on Comprehension and Recall of Arguments
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Dwyer, Christopher P.; Hogan, Michael J.; Stewart, Ian – Thinking Skills and Creativity, 2010
The current study compared the effects on comprehension and memory of learning via text versus learning via argument map. Argument mapping is a method of diagrammatic representation of arguments designed to simplify the reading of an argument structure and allow for easy assimilation of core propositions and relations. In the current study, 400…
Descriptors: Memory, Comparative Analysis, Evaluation Methods, Map Skills