The Impirical Study Of The Impacts Of Project Learning On College Students' Critical Thinking

With the acceleration of economic globalization,it is one of the main goals of higher education reform to train creative talents.Critical thinking is the basis and premise of creative thinking.The urgent demand of the country for creative talents and the current situation of the critical thinking of our college students are not optimistic,which makes it necessary for college students to cultivate their critical thinking.Project learning,as a new way of learning,advocates learners to think independently,emphasizes the role of thinking in the whole project activity,and has an inherent consistency with critical thinking.Therefore,the main purpose of this empirical study is to demonstrate the effectiveness of project learning in college students' critical thinking and skills.Through reviewing the relevant literature and then summarizes and combs the related research status of project learning and critical thinking,analysis of the existing critical thinking training methods and learning strategies and project development.The cultivation of critical thinking in project learning and the way of measurement are defined.Learning theory in project learning the role of teachers should follow the basic principles and the cultivation of students' critical thinking from the project,through the project learning and critical thinking to the corresponding activity design,combined with the project learning process,build a project learning framework for the development of students' critical thinking.On the basis of critical thinking training framework from the project design to implementation process specific to the evaluation on this last several aspects of the concrete teaching practice,through the practice of three themes,from the changes of students behavior and attitude evaluation of students' critical thinking,inquiry learning project influence on critical thinking effect.It is analyzed from two aspects of quality and quantity.Qualitative analysis is mainly about the data analysis of the students' reflective reports,thinking record forms and students' interviews.The quantitative analysis mainly focuses on the analysis of the statistics of the critical thinking tendency and skills questionnaire.The paper carry out an empirical study on teaching through the analysis and understanding of project learning and critical thinking.The conclusion of the study suggests that project-based learning is feasible to enhance the students' critical thinking,and more outstanding in the aspects of truth-seeking,analyticity,inquisitiveness,maturity.Slightly insufficient of open-mindedness,systematicity,self-confidence.the three skills of critical thinking analysis,inference and evaluation are improved.