Critical Thinking and Managerial Decision

Running head: CRITICAL THINKING AND MANAGERIAL DECISIONS
CRITICAL THINKING AND MANAGERIAL DECISIONS
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Abrami, P. C., Bernard, R. M., Borokhovski, E., Waddington, D. I., Wade, C. A., &
Persson, T. (2015). Strategies for teaching students to think critically: A meta-
analysis. Review of Educational Research, 85(2), 275-314. DOI: 10.3102/0034654314551063
The main purpose of the article is to emphasize on importance of critical thinking. In other
words, they are trying to talk about how the teachers can actually influence the students to reach
a text and then develop a critical thinking style of their own so that they can develop their takes
and opinions of the piece of text that they are reading.
The research objective of this assignment is to find out the different strategies that can be used
for teaching the students how to think and also analyze any texts critically. Some of research
questions can be-
Is CT or critical thinking skills important for the students?
How can the students learn the importance of critical thinking skills?
The methodology that has been used in this paper is the Meta-analysis method which is a
quantitative research synthesis methodology and that helps in this research. This is because this
methodology tries to investigate and find out the actual impacts of CT or critical thinking skills
on the students and how can they use it for further studies (Abrami et al., 2015).
Critical Evaluation
CT or critical thinking is one of the most important tools that must be used by students as they
grow up. This will enhance their thinking capability and they will be able to know about the
differences in the opinion of the author and also the different thoughts that they are having.
Leytham, Dawson, and Rasmussen (2018) have opined in this similar context that many different
strategies must be used in the classes and also by the teachers to teach their students how can
they read and also analyze a particular text with their critical thought process and understanding.
Khan and Setiawan (2019) are evidence of the fact that different mentorship techniques and
strategies can be used for understanding the methods of critical thinking. Students must be

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guided by their teachers and also taught the dialogues, tone of writing and other such aspects that
will be teaching the students the better means through which they would read a text and then be
able to understand the different ways in which they can give the critical explanation of the same.
Whiley et al. ( 2017)
However, this article is also talking about the different objections that have been raised against
these. One of the major objections is that these tools like an effective mentorship, the dialogues
and many other such techniques that have been mentioned are still in the stage of their infancy
and have to be dealt with proper understanding in the coming years (Ghanizadeh, 2017). The. In
other words, there is a need for further investigation and also analysis to know if these tools can
be used by the teachers to make their students deal with their prescribed texts with the CT over
the critical thinking method.
Age is indeed an essential factor in this aspect because the development of the critical thinking
capability is developed as one grows older. Children might not know how to use critical thinking
skills on every subject. This is a good and strong enough objection as it seems quite valid. To
think about any particular text or critically give a piece of literature, one must be able to know
about the different
The weakness in this article is that the method meta-analysis itself answers only a limited
amount of questions that are the ones that have already been asked previously. However, at the
same time, this opens for a huge scope of further researches in the future so that the investigation
on the importance of CT or critical thinking skill can be carried on properly. This paves the path
for many future visitors so that they can actually take the idea from the previous researches that
have been done and are also able to take up the different methods that will be used for the
The article is contributing towards the explanation and the importance of CT or the critical
thinking style in a proper way so that teachers start dealing with this in their way. However, it is
hoped that this will be having a very positive impact as this will be teaching the students the
different ways in which they can form their ideas and can also refer to cross text references if it
is useful for them to critically read and also analyze the text.