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- Title
CRITICAL THINKING AND RESEARCH.
- Authors
Dunning, Gordon M.
- Abstract
The article presents a perspective on critical thinking and research. According to the author, advancement of research must be based on a sound foundation of good instrumentation both in terms of instrument design and use. One limitation of its use is to the effect that the introduction of an instrument into an area of interest will itself alter the original conditions. As an example, the author cited the experiments conducted related to the new designs for fuel elements to be used in a reactor which involved the safety to fabricate the elements and define their positioning within the reactor such that the production of an excess number of neutrons would be limited to a certain value. The preliminary reports of the experiments was encouraging but because of further analysis, it was realized that the instrument placed in the neutron flux was the absorbing neutrons and thus giving underestimate of the excess number present.
- Subjects
CRITICAL thinking; RESEARCH; SCIENTIFIC experimentation; EXPERIMENTAL design; SCIENTIFIC apparatus &; instruments; SCIENCE education; FEASIBILITY studies; INTEREST (Psychology); FACTS (Philosophy); HYPOTHESIS
- Publication
Science Education, 1956, Vol 40, Issue 2, p83
- ISSN
0036-8326
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/sce.3730400203