Critical Thinking and Flexibility

Scheibling-Seve, Calliste; Pasquinelli, Elena; Sander, Emmanuel

doi:10.1002/9781119902737.ch4

Cognitive Flexibility 2022

DOI: 10.1002/9781119902737.ch4

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Critical Thinking and Flexibility

Calliste Scheibling-Seve

Elena Pasquinelli

Emmanuel Sander

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“…A pathway for triggering this kind of cognitive flexibility is to enhance multiple categorization, i.e. a mechanism by which an individual is able to perceive a given entity from different points of view (Scheibling-Sève et al, 2022). For example, first grade students who participated in a semantic recoding intervention practiced solving a subtraction problem such a "There are 11 flowers in the bouquet.…”

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Enhancing cognitive flexibility through a training based on multiple categorization: Developing proportional reasoning in primary school

Scheibling-Seve

Gvozdic

Pasquinelli³

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J. Numer. Cogn.

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Proportional reasoning is a key topic both at school and in everyday life. However, students are often misled by their preconceptions regarding proportions. Our hypothesis is that these limitations can be mitigated by working on alternative ways of categorizing situations that enable more adequate inferences. Multiple categorization triggers flexibility, which enables reinterpreting a problem statement and adopting a more relevant point of view. The present study aims to show the improvements in proportional reasoning after an intervention focusing on such a multiple categorization. Twenty-eight 4th and 5th grade classes participated in the study during one school year. Schools were classified by the SES of their neighborhood. The experimental group received 12 math lessons focusing on flexibly envisioning a situation involving proportional reasoning from different points of view. At the end of the school year, compared to a control group, the experimental group had better results on the posttest when solving proportion word problems and proposed more diverse solving strategies. The analyses also show that the performance gap linked to the school’s SES classification was reduced. This offers promising perspectives regarding multiple categorization as a path to overtake preconceptions and develop cognitive flexibility at school.

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Enhancing cognitive flexibility through a training based on multiple categorization: Developing proportional reasoning in primary school

Scheibling-Seve

Gvozdic

Pasquinelli³

et al. 2022

J. Numer. Cogn.

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Pathways from cognitive flexibility to academic achievement: mediating roles of critical thinking disposition and mathematics anxiety

Gökçe,

Güner

2024

Curr Psychol

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The purpose of this study is to examine the mediating roles of critical thinking disposition and mathematics anxiety between cognitive flexibility and academic achievement. A cross-sectional study was held to observe and compare path coefficients among latent and observed variables across 662 university students studying elementary mathematics education. In concur with grade point average scores, Cognitive Flexibility Scale, UF/EMI Critical Thinking Disposition Instrument and Math Anxiety-Apprehension Survey scores were utilized for structural equation modeling analyses. The results of this study indicated that freshman students experience the greatest impact from cognitive flexibility on academic achievement, while sophomores experience the least impact. Additionally, with the exception of the model for sophomore students, the mediating effects of the critical thinking disposition between cognitive flexibility and academic achievement were positive and statistically significant. Additionally, none of the models’ estimations of how mathematics anxiety would mediate between cognitive flexibility and academic achievement were statistically significant. Last but not least, for junior students only positive and statistically significant mediating effects of critical thinking disposition and mathematics anxiety between cognitive flexibility and academic achievement were found. This study put forth evidence to investigate cognitive flexibility, critical thinking disposition and math anxiety in higher education and to show the total, direct and mediating effects on academic achievement.

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Critical Thinking and Flexibility

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Enhancing cognitive flexibility through a training based on multiple categorization: Developing proportional reasoning in primary school

Enhancing cognitive flexibility through a training based on multiple categorization: Developing proportional reasoning in primary school

Pathways from cognitive flexibility to academic achievement: mediating roles of critical thinking disposition and mathematics anxiety

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