Do Your Students Think or Do They Memorize?.

Wales, Charles E.; And Others

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Publication Date: 1988

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Do Your Students Think or Do They Memorize?

Wales, Charles E.; And Others

Engineering Education, v78 n7 p682-88 Apr 1988

States that students who simultaneously acquire subject matter concepts and high-level thinking skills are more likely to learn, remember, and be able to apply the concepts. Provides an example for assisting faculty in developing better decision-makers. (RT)

Descriptors: College Instruction, College Science, Creative Thinking, Critical Thinking, Decision Making Skills, Engineering Education, Higher Education, Instruction, Instructional Improvement, Problem Solving, Science Education, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive; Guides - Classroom - Teacher

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