Nowadays, improving the quality of the teaching and learning processes – namely, through promoting pedagogical innovation and active learning – has become clearer in the agenda of higher education institutions, in Portugal. For such to become a reality though, faculty must become involved in (self)reflexive and (trans)formative processes, for their own professional development and for the benefit of their stude...
Critical thinking is essential today, state higher education institutions, organizations, and society. This study aimed to translate, adapt, and assess the psychometric proprieties of the Portuguese version of Halpern Critical Thinking Assessment (Halpern, 2012), administered to 333 college students. Also, it aimed to analyze if there were differences in total scores according to disciplinary area and academic ...