The certainty of evidence for the effects of teaching strategies on critical thinking ranges from very low to moderate, with no strategy rated high.¶
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q3 i? The certainty of the evidence for the effects of 37 teaching strategies on critical thinking was judged to be moderate for 16 strategies, low to moderate for one, low for 11, and very low for 10, with no strategy rated high. → Oxman 2024
Evidence¶
Oxman 2024¶
Oxman, Andrew D.; Nsangi, Allen; Martínez García, Laura; Kaseje, Margaret; Samsó Jofra, Laura; Semakula, Daniel; Munthe-Kaas, Heather; Rosenbaum, Sarah E. (2024). The effects of teaching strategies on learning to think critically in primary and secondary schools: an overview of systematic reviews. F1000Research. https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.158087.1
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The overview authors prepared plain language summaries for 37 teaching strategies judged most relevant to teaching critical thinking in primary and secondary schools. They used GRADE criteria to judge the certainty of the evidence for each strategy's bottom line.
"We judged the certainty of the evidence to be moderate for 16 teaching strategies, low to moderate for one, low for 11, and very low for 10 ( Table 7). We did not judge the certainty of the evidence to by high for any of the teaching strategies."
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