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Helena Silva
Researcher at University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro
Publications - 24
Citations - 134
Helena Silva is an academic researcher from University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro. The author has contributed to research in topics: Critical thinking & Cooperative learning. The author has an hindex of 5, co-authored 19 publications receiving 80 citations. Previous affiliations of Helena Silva include University of Porto.
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Cooperative Learning on Promoting Creative Thinking and Mathematical Creativity in Higher Education
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present the assessment results of an intervention using cooperative learning and the conventional teaching method in order to promote creative thinking in higher education, and indicate that students who participated in the intervention scored significantly higher in the creativity test at the end of the intervention and indicated that creative thinking and divergent thinking abilities can be enhanced through the kind of intervention that was proposed in the study.
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Adding value to the learning process by online peer review activities: towards the elaboration of a methodology to promote critical thinking in future engineers
Caroline Dominguez,Maria Manuel Nascimento,Rita Payan-Carreira,Gonçalo Cruz,Helena Silva,José Lopes,Maria da Felicidade Morais,Eva Morais +7 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe how teaching faculty, interested in endorsing the acquisition of communication and critical thinking skills among engineering students, has been implementing a learning methodology throughout online peer review activities.
A European review on Critical Thinking educational practices in Higher Education Institutions
Daniela Dumitru,Dragos Bigu,Jan Elen,Lai Jiang,Asta Railiene,Daiva Penkauskiene,Ioanna V. Papathanasiou,Konstantinos Tsaras,Evangelos C. Fradelos,Aoife Ahern,Ciaran McNally,John O'Sullivan,An Verburgh,Eva Jarošová,Hana Lorencová,Antonella Poce,Francesco Agrusti,Maria Rosaria Re,Blanca Puig,Paloma Blanco,Inés Mosquera,Beatriz Crujeiras-Pérez,Caroline Dominguez,Gonçalo Cruz,Helena Silva,Maria da Felicidade Morais,Maria Manuel Nascimento,Rita Payan-Carreira +27 more
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What critical thinking skills and dispositions do new graduates need for professional life? Views from Portuguese employers in different fields
TL;DR: Even though Critical Thinking (CT) is an important goal for higher education institutions and labour market professionals, studies dealing with employers' perceptions on CT meaning and envisioning have been conducted as mentioned in this paper.
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Enhancing College Students’ Critical Thinking Skills in Cooperative Groups
TL;DR: In this article, the effects of cooperative learning interventions on college students' critical thinking (CT) development were examined and the results showed that the effects were very positive and that the students of the intervention group showed greater improvements in critical thinking skills compared to the control group.