In the task of helping students become critical thinkers, two impediments stand in the way. The first is a widespread misdiagnosis about why students fail to become critical thinkers in the first place, and the second is the lack of a practical instructional strategy for teaching critical thinking skills in the classroom. Both of these problems can be remedied.
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Hannel et al. (1998) studied this question.