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Action Research of Integrating "Big Six" Skills into Critical Thinking Instruction for Elementary School Social Studies

The purpose of the research aims to integrate Big6 skills into critical thinking instruction for elementary school sixth grade social studies, cultivate the students the basic capability of information literacy, lead the students an usage the Big6 skills step to integrate the critical thinking meaning of the Ennis as the teaching mode, promote the student to learn the theme learning research in the social studies. The main teaching mode includes four stages: (1)the valuation stage;(2)the investigation stage;(3)the development new look stage;(4)the integration stage.
The researcher of this research teach in grade six of primary school, with class student for research object, the data collection pays emphasis to qualitative and quantification analysis , the quantification analysis with Chiu-Ching Chen method which draws up of the critical thinking capability test, researcher learns the theme questionnaire, basic information literacy questionnaire, the qualitative data collection includes the social work sheets, topic research achievement report, student learning portfolio, carrying the teaching diaries, the classroom observation record, consulting with students, parent feedback opinion and teacher¡¦s own inspection and feeling. The results of the data collection and the analysis are as follows:
1. Big6 skills integrate the social studies critical thinking teaching to carry on a two-stage theme learning action research through giving something back to,examining oneself and revising the teaching process, can be used as the basis of the teaching project implementation.
2. Big6 skills integrate the social studies critical thinking teaching project, which is not able to promote the student's critical thinking cognition and skills immediately and effectively, for critical thinking disposition is obviously helpful.
3. The students who have experienced the Big6 skills integrated the social studies critical thinking teaching, emerge from self-directed learning to active learning capability.
4. Parent and teachers and students study the theme and life of the social studies as well as the relevant linking of the teaching project, apply the information science and technology and the group cooperate learning, all embrace encouraging and forward-direction of the viewpoint, affirm the student's performance.
Researcher's comprehensive implementation comes to a conclusion that the action research of integrating Big6 skills into critical thinking instruction for elementary school social studies, willing to have the following suggestions to the researcher in the future: The suggestions are:
1. Expanding the Big6 skills implementation information integrates each subject teaching.
2. The social studies teacher should value the critical thinking teaching, carry on a related research of topic.
3. Encouraging teachers and students to participate into the action research together, constructing networking learning mode.
4. Learning to use the qualitative analysis method flexibly.
5. Networking action teaching strategy.
6. Improveing techniques and ways in monthly examination, setting-up social studies item pull.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0621105-222316
Date21 June 2005
CreatorsTing, Yu-chih
ContributorsTsai-feng Cheng, Ming-charng Jeng, Shu-ching Yang
PublisherNSYSU
Source SetsNSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive
LanguageCholon
Detected LanguageEnglish
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Formatapplication/pdf
Sourcehttp://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0621105-222316
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