You do not stick to one belief at all times, and are constantly looking for new evidence to prove, or disprove, your current thoughts and stance on the investigation. ... Another crucially important skill and trait would be the ability to think critically. ... A great critical thinker takes those thoughts and thinks of ways to apply a change to that situation. ... Critical thinking can be used to formulate new possible solutions to the problems that may occur in the investigation. ... The investigator will need to be a critical thinker. ...

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(p.205) Moreover, group work may also lead to academic gains such as transferrable skills mentioned above like critical thinking, reasoning and problem solving and metalanguage skills like learning to learn. ... However, at this point, we also embrace a socio-cultural stance because we thought that just because we assume they are going to use ''would like' does not mean that they will use it. ...

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