Students still need to learn facts
Factual knowledge still represents the starting point for evaluating arguments, weighing options, and drawing conclusions. These are things that modern societies regularly expect their citizens to do.
Scoring problems in the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking
This result also raises the question of whether “creativity” as a unitary construct is even real.
The jingle fallacy: Why schools should not teach critical thinking or creativity?
Should schools teach lessons on developing general creativity or general critical thinking? Maybe not. I came to this conclusion after reading a superbly written literature review on the effectiveness of cognitive training regimens (Sala & Gobet, 2019). These training programs take a variety of forms, including working memory training, music lessons, chess instruction, and brain…
