Critical Thinking
A Comparative Study of Teaching Critical Thinking Through Persuasive Writing to Average, Gifted and Students with Learning Disabilities
By Claire Hughes (2000)
This study examined the impact that a curriculum designed to teach critical thinking through persuasive writing had on gifted, average, and students with learning disabilities. The research addressed four questions. The first determined that there were initial differences in critical thinking abilities among fourth and fifth grade gifted, average and students with learning disabilities, as measured by performance on a persuasive writing task. Gifted students outscored average students who outscored students with learning disabilities.
The second question determined that after instruction, all ability groups significantly improved their overall writing scores when presented with a minimum of 20 hours of direct instruction in the reasoning elements of persuasive writing and when compared to a group of students of......
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