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Business education can strengthen students’ critical thinking by using active engagement instead of lecture and rote memorization, emphasizing learning processes over mere subject content, and adopting assessments that demand intellectual challenge rather than recall. Barriers such as inadequate training, limited resources, biased preconceptions, and time pressure can hinder implementation. 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Snyder  \nAbstract  \nCritical thinking is a learned skill that requires instruction and practice. Business education instructors at both the secondary and post-secondary levels can enhance students’ critical thinking skills by (1) using instructional strategies that actively engage students in the learning process rather than relying on lecture and rote memorization,(2) focusing instruction on the process of learning rather than solely on the content, and (3) using assessment techniques that provide students with an intellectual challenge rather than memory recall. Several barriers can impede critical thinking instruction. Lack of training, limited resources, biased preconceptions, and time constraints conspire tonegate learning environments that promote critical thinking. However, actively engaging students in project-based or collaborative activities can encourage students’ critical thinking development if instructors model the thinking process, use effective questioning techniques, and guide students’ critical thinking processes. The examples provided challenge instructors to think of students as users of information rather than receivers of information.  \n“It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.”  \n~ Alec Bourne  \nintroduction  \nWhat is critical thinking, and why is it so important? The Critical Thinking Community defined critical thinking as “the intellectually disciplined process of actively and skillfully conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and/or evaluating information gathered from, or generated by, observation, experience, reflection, reasoning, or communication, as a guide to belief and action”(Scriven & Paul, 2007, p. 1) . Critical thinking has also been referred to as metacognition (Tempelaar, 2006) or the process of “thinking about thinking” as defined and originally purposed by Flavell (1979) . Critical thinking skills are important because they enable students “to deal effectively with social, scientific, and practical problems”(Shakirova, 2007, p. 42). Simply put, students who are able to think critically are able to solve problems effectively. Merely having knowledge or information is not enough. To be effective in the workplace (and in their personal lives), students must be able to solve problems to make effective decisions; they must be able to think critically.  \nCritical thinking is not a new concept. “Throughout nearly 300 years of policymaking in the United States, educators have promoted eight broad goals of schooling: basic academic skills, critical thinking and problem solving, social skills and work ethic, citizenship, physical health, emotional health, the  \nDr. Lisa Gueldenzoph Snyder is an associate professor of Business Education in the School of Business and Economics at North Carolina A&T State University in Greensboro, NC.  \nMark J. Snyder is an adjunct professor of Business Administration in the Love School of Business at Elon University in Elon, North Carolina.  \n90 The Delta Pi Epsilon Journal  \nTEACHING CRITICAL THINKING AND PROBLEM SOLVING SKILLS  \narts and literature, and preparation for skilled employment”(Rothstein, Wilder,& Jacobsen, 2007, p. 8) . Business education directly addresses work ethic and the preparation for skilled employment as well as critical thinking and problem solving. Yet many teachers continually struggle to engage students in critical thinking activities (Tempelaar, 2006), and students seldom use critical thinking skills to solve complex, real-world problems (Bartlett, 2002; Rippin, Booth, Bowie, & Jordan, 2002) . Why?  \nThe answer may be in our instructional methods. Two quotes that are","cbCaispevLJZeXAc","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaispevLJZeXAc","pdf",272836,11,"English","# Abstract\n# Introduction\n# How critical thinking relates to instructional design\n## Key premise: critical thinking as a learned skill\n## Application of content and questioning techniques","[{\"question\":\"How do project-based or collaborative activities support critical thinking development?\",\"answer\":\"When instructors model the thinking process, use effective questioning techniques, and guide students, project-based or collaborative activities encourage learners to develop critical thinking skills.\"}]","Teaching Critical Thinking and Problem Solving Skills | PDF",1791160750,28]