Luíz Moniz Pereira
Departamento de Informática, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
Ludwig Krippahl
Departamento de Informática, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
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Published in: The 13th International Conference on Thinking Norrköping; Sweden June 17-21; 2007
Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings 21:21, p. 153-158
Published: 2007-07-20
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ISSN: 1650-3686 (print), 1650-3740 (online)
This paper describes the first attempt at teaching critical thinking skills in a Portuguese engineering undergraduate curriculum; at the Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia of Universdade Nova de Lisboa; for Informatics Engineering students. It addresses the motivation and curricular reforms that made this course desirable and possible to implement; the structure and objectives of the course; and the results obtained; both as reported by the student’s personal evaluation of the course and by the academic results. After this successful experimental instalment; this course is likely to become available to other undergraduate programs in Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia.
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