ACTION RESEARCH in Critical Thinking Skills developed through Students experience on assessing research write-up of peers using online forum.

ACTION RESEARCH in  Critical Thinking Skills developed through Students experience on assessing research write-up of peers using online forum.

Problem:
How to develop critical thinking of students?
Research Question

1.    How do individual develop critical thinking through evaluating others research write-up?
2.    Which research skills are developed by the group due to peer evaluation?
a.     Identifying the problem
b.    Stating the hypothesis
c.    Gathering of data
d.    Interpreting the data
e.    Drawing generalization
f.    Observing ethical standards (citing sources,  observing safety measures)
3.    How do peer evaluation developed open-mindedness?
4.    How do peer evaluation change their attitude towards doing a research project?

Research Tools
1.    Intel Philippine Science Fair Rubric
2.    Survey questionnaire (self reflection)
3.    Rubric on peer evaluation
4.    Monitoring checklist
5.    wikispaces.com

Implementation Timeline
Activities    Date    Task Owner

Uploading of research project
   
October 21, 2009   
students

Peer reviewing
   
October 23- January 15, 2009   
students

Assessing attitude and open mindedness of students towards research
   
January 16-17, 2009   
Teacher/students