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Citation :

O. Doody., and M. Condon. (2012). Increasing student involvement and learning through using debate as an assessment, Nurse Education in Practice, (12): 232-237.

After read this article journal, I learn that the purpose of this research is to identify the use of a debate as an assessment method within an intellectual disability nursing programme and a student’s reflective comment on the process, and their experience of a debate as their assessment method.

In nursing program, the students have to be able to think critically to provide effective care whilst coping with the expansion in their role associated with the complexities of current healthcare systems. Because if the nurses have a good critical thinking and problem solving skill, it will help them to provide efficient and quality healthcare. Based on the research it is shown that debate as pedagogical method can improve students’ critincal thinking and oral communication skills. The learning process will be facilitated if the education process begins by bringing out students’ perceptions, evaluating and testing it, after that they have to integrate their opinion or perception with the new, more refined ideas or opinion in the person’s belief system.

After read this article journal, I got some  important information that the lower order thinking skills of knowledge, comprehension, and application focus on rote learning or what students should think, whereas the higher order thinking skills of analysis, synthesis, and evaluation focus on how to think. To make the students develop their higher order thinking, instructional strategies are better suited to be implemented than traditional strategies.

When I become a teacher, I will use debate technique to promote the students’ critical thinking as well as their oral communication skill because students learn more effectively by actively analysing, discussing and applying content in meaningful ways rather than by passively get the information from the teacher.