Research Example 5

This peer reviewed article is called “Learning to Think Critically, A Visual Art Experiment”. The article talks about research done to test weather students who were exposed to art, could engage better in critical thinking.  To do this research a trial was conducted, where some of the students were told to participate in a school program at an art museum, while others were not. The findings of this research showed that students who participated in the school art visit, were much stronger critical thinkers.

The topic of this article is art and its relationship to education/intelligence. The question posed is, “are students who are exposed to art, able to think more critically than students with no art exposure?”

In order to test this question, you would need deep opinions/attitudes as well as expert knowledge data.

You would need to run the data by an expert who knows specifically about art and its association with critical thinking, specifically who could figure out if the art was affect the students thinking. You would also need to test the students (through learning there deeply held opinions and attitudes), to figure out if they are stronger critical thinkers after being exposed or not exposed to art.

After collecting all the data, you could analyze it by coding! See what categories matched with art and intellect/critical thinking, and draw conclusions from that.

I think this is really cool research. I personally believe that art can drastically affect intellect! I like how this study tries to use science to make a claim.

This would be a primary source because the information they tested was obtained first hand.

Bibliography

Bowen, D., Greene, J., & Kisida, B. (2014). Learning to Think Critically. Educational Researcher, 43(1), 37–44. doi:10.3102/0013189X13512675