Critical Thinking Activities in Florida Undergraduate Biology Classes improves Comprehension of Climate Change

Abstract

ABSTRACT This research shows that employing critical thinking (problem-solving and scientific reasoning) skills when learning about climate change helped undergraduate biology students to understand the subject matter better. In this post hoc analysis of pre- and post-test scores from a public Florida undergraduate college, we identified significant results, with medium effect sizes, for a critical thinking treatment to help undergraduates tie together concepts on climate change in introductory biology classes. Age was determined not to be a significant factor.