How can reasoning skills be improved?
-An experimental study of the effects of reasoning skills curriculum on reasoning skills development for students in postsecondary technical education programs Mingchang Wu Department of vocational and technical education, National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, Taiwan. E-mail: wumc@pine.yuntech.edu.tw Kuo-hung Tseng Meiho Institute of Technology, Taiwan. E-Mail: :ken@email.meiho.edu.tw James P. Greenan Department of Curriculum and Instruction, Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA Paper presented at the European Conference on Educational Research, University of Hamburg, 17-20 September 2003 Abstract The improvement of reasoning skills has been highly valued as a major educational goal. These skills are also increasingly needed in this society filled with information resources and multifarious senses of value. However, reasoning education seems not to succeed as expected due to the lack of effective instructional strategies and systematic curricula. Related research has
