Duncan Ferguson

I was once told by an Associate Dean for Academic Affairs that their school had looked at the grades of single pre-vet course series correlated best with grades of a student during the first 3 years of vet school.  That course series was Physics.  The instruction of students in conceptual and practi...

In his article in the Chronicle of Higher Education entitled "Thinking for Dummies" Richard Nisbett suggests 5 strategies to encourage students to think critically. The quote from this article in the title says as strongly as one can imagine why we need to spend more time on helping future clinician...

In this month's Review of Educational Research, there is a meta-analysis study by Huber and Kuncel entitled "Does College Teach Critical Thinking? A Meta-Analysis" (see attached). This and other related studies can be found at:   http://rer.aera.net This meta-analysis of 77 educational studies conc...