Enhancing Scientific Thinking Through the Development of Critical Thinking in Higher Education

In Chapter 3, Hyytinen, Toom and Shavelson discuss how critical thinking forms the foundation for the development of scientific thinking skills. They provide a detailed definition and conceptualisation of critical thinking and review the focus of research into this domain. Hyytinen and colleagues highlight why it is important for students to develop critical thinking skills as useful skills in their own right, and in order to form scientific thinking skills more broadly. In making this argument, they discuss a curriculum alignment approach to enhancing critical thinking skills.Peer reviewe