Critical Thinking Training for Army Officers. Volume Three. Development and Assessment of a Web-Based Training Program

摘要

This is the third volume of a three-volume report describing a multi- year research program to develop and validate web based training in critical thinking for Army officers. The first volume presents an overview of the research effort that developed and validated a theoretical model for the training, selected and validated eight high impact critical thinking skills for Army officers, and developed and validated the training course. The second volume describes, in more detail, the model and theoretical basis for the training and the investigations that were conducted to validate the model. This, the third volume, describes the prototype training system that was developed for two of the skills, including the functional requirements, pedagogical principles, course content, and evaluation of the training. A succeeding report (Fischer, Spiker, Harris, McPeters, & Riedel, 2008) describes an expanded training system which provides training for eight critical thinking skills for Army officers.