Год выпуска: 2010 Автор: Ming-Huey Tseng Издательство: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing Страниц: 196 ISBN: 9783838333144
Описание
This study applied an English version of a data- driven software system to promote Chinese medical students'' critical thinking in Taiwan. The students were not familiar with problem-based learning or this English version system. The findings report two important things. One is that Chinese students'' thinking skills could be promoted using their own patterns, which involve students'' background, age, group members'' influence/interaction, and etc. The other is that the students'' thinking orientations and responses to the system are very different from the anticipation of the system''s designers. The cultural gap and difference in this case provides instructional designers with ideas when designing technological systems for different cultural and language users. This study defined the indicators of critical thinking as inquiry, analysis, inference, and decision-making, and used this definition to establish codes to explore students'' thinking patterns when they...
