Estrategias para el desarrollo de las habilidades de pensamiento crítico de la asignatura de Historia dentro del Programa del Diploma en la modalidad virtual

Abstract

This research project sought to demonstrate that visible thinking routines and graphic organizers helped develop higher-order thinking and critical thinking skills in 16 third-year high school students. The research has mixed-method research, that is, quantitative and qualitative, and the instrument used was a rubric to score Paper 2 essays in the external assessment of the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme. Moreover, the criteria adaptation for evaluating visible thinking routines, from the book Critical Thinking Didactic Course published by the Ministry of Education. The results showed that the third high school students were able to develop their higher-order skills and improve their critical thinking through practices with the visible thinking routines given by Project Zero at Harvard University. Tools used in the project were mind maps and graphic organizers. At the end of the implementation of the project, the students must maintain the practice of the thinking routines combined with the construction of graphic organizers