Towards establishing a training programme for increasing teachers' awareness of higher order thinking skills: A preliminary survey of the state of affairs

Teachers play a pivotal role in transforming the classroom into an active, inquisitive environment that may foster the development of more effective thinking in students. Teachers classroom behaviour has great influence on students as teacher modelling is believed to be a powerful means for encourag...

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প্রধান লেখক: Abdul Karim, Abdul Malek, Abdullah, Mohd Nordin, Mohd Yusoff, Nurahimah, Abdullah, Syaharom
বিন্যাস: Monograph
ভাষা:English
প্রকাশিত: Universiti Utara Malaysia 1997
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অনলাইন ব্যবহার করুন:https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/5110/1/ABDUL_MALEK_ABDUL_KARIM_-_Towards_Establishing_A_Training_Programme_For..._%281997%29.pdf
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author Abdul Karim, Abdul Malek
Abdullah, Mohd Nordin
Mohd Yusoff, Nurahimah
Abdullah, Syaharom
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Abdullah, Mohd Nordin
Mohd Yusoff, Nurahimah
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description Teachers play a pivotal role in transforming the classroom into an active, inquisitive environment that may foster the development of more effective thinking in students. Teachers classroom behaviour has great influence on students as teacher modelling is believed to be a powerful means for encouraging the development of appropriate behaviour as well as attitudes towards thinking. The present study was conducted to verify the practicality and needs of conducting a comprehensive evaluation of the teaching of thinking in secondary schools. It tried to ascertain teachers' disposition towards the teaching of thinking, the extent of direct and indirect teaching of thinking, and the underlying influence of public examination on instruction. The questionnaire survey method and observation were employed to gather data. Ten randomly selected schools and 70 English language teachers were used. The data gathered seem to suggest the existence of discrepancy between respondents' responses to the questionnaire and actual classroom teaching - the positive disposition was not reflected in classroom practice. The data gathered also indicate that teachers believed that content knowledge bears on performance in public examination. Though the evidence was compelling, the study was limited in scope. A comprehensive study is, therefore, recommended in order to gather more conclusive evidence about the current state of affairs.
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spelling uum-51102016-12-07T07:10:43Z https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/5110/ Towards establishing a training programme for increasing teachers' awareness of higher order thinking skills: A preliminary survey of the state of affairs Abdul Karim, Abdul Malek Abdullah, Mohd Nordin Mohd Yusoff, Nurahimah Abdullah, Syaharom LB Theory and practice of education Teachers play a pivotal role in transforming the classroom into an active, inquisitive environment that may foster the development of more effective thinking in students. Teachers classroom behaviour has great influence on students as teacher modelling is believed to be a powerful means for encouraging the development of appropriate behaviour as well as attitudes towards thinking. The present study was conducted to verify the practicality and needs of conducting a comprehensive evaluation of the teaching of thinking in secondary schools. It tried to ascertain teachers' disposition towards the teaching of thinking, the extent of direct and indirect teaching of thinking, and the underlying influence of public examination on instruction. The questionnaire survey method and observation were employed to gather data. Ten randomly selected schools and 70 English language teachers were used. The data gathered seem to suggest the existence of discrepancy between respondents' responses to the questionnaire and actual classroom teaching - the positive disposition was not reflected in classroom practice. The data gathered also indicate that teachers believed that content knowledge bears on performance in public examination. Though the evidence was compelling, the study was limited in scope. A comprehensive study is, therefore, recommended in order to gather more conclusive evidence about the current state of affairs. Universiti Utara Malaysia 1997 Monograph NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/5110/1/ABDUL_MALEK_ABDUL_KARIM_-_Towards_Establishing_A_Training_Programme_For..._%281997%29.pdf Abdul Karim, Abdul Malek and Abdullah, Mohd Nordin and Mohd Yusoff, Nurahimah and Abdullah, Syaharom (1997) Towards establishing a training programme for increasing teachers' awareness of higher order thinking skills: A preliminary survey of the state of affairs. Project Report. Universiti Utara Malaysia, Sintok. (Unpublished)
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Towards establishing a training programme for increasing teachers' awareness of higher order thinking skills: A preliminary survey of the state of affairs
title Towards establishing a training programme for increasing teachers' awareness of higher order thinking skills: A preliminary survey of the state of affairs
title_full Towards establishing a training programme for increasing teachers' awareness of higher order thinking skills: A preliminary survey of the state of affairs
title_fullStr Towards establishing a training programme for increasing teachers' awareness of higher order thinking skills: A preliminary survey of the state of affairs
title_full_unstemmed Towards establishing a training programme for increasing teachers' awareness of higher order thinking skills: A preliminary survey of the state of affairs
title_short Towards establishing a training programme for increasing teachers' awareness of higher order thinking skills: A preliminary survey of the state of affairs
title_sort towards establishing a training programme for increasing teachers awareness of higher order thinking skills a preliminary survey of the state of affairs
topic LB Theory and practice of education
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