RESEARCH AND CRITICAL THINKING

Research and Critical Thinking

Research and Critical Thinking

Research and Critical Thinking

Act of assessing our own processes of an idea is known as meta-cognition. More colloquially, meta-cognition is thinking about our own thinking. Costa (2001) offers a simple example to illustrate the usual conclusions that often most people do not think about their own thinking. He asked a large group of people, "How much is half of two plus two?" What do you think about this issue? Mentally take half of the two, and then add in two, or if you have the sum of two plus two, and then ...