Stanford University: most Chinese students ' critical thinking, but was killed in higher education-University, higher education-IT information
IT the information according to a Stanford University study showed that Chinese students has always been considered a lack of critical thinking actually the world's most powerful, but that advantage in higher education was gradually losing its edge, this is likely to mean that the problems existing in university education in China.
The study shows that Chinese students are not only learning by rote, critical thinking is among the best in the world, but the ability to disappear after entering college. Computer science and engineering, for example when the freshmen, their critical thinking ability than the United States and Russia of similar new high levels of two or three years. These include identifying assumptions, validate assumptions, as well as find relationships between variables, and so on. But these regions do not exercise further in the University, by contrast, the United States and Russia two years after University students in ability has improved.
Stanford University researchers speculate that this may and Chinese universities into the wide, as well as expansion in recent years has much to do. Many Chinese students before they entered the University in under high pressure is working very hard to prepare for the University entrance exam, thinking ability have been fully trained, but no pressure after entering college "bury the hatchet", relax, there is little incentive to exercise their abilities in all aspects , and can easily graduate. This is one reason many universities can't really cultivate talent.
Comparison of universities abroad, such as the US and Russia, they have lenient policy , which gives students entering the University to tighten a string study hard, so that their abilities are fully trained, and after entering to make better use of their knowledge to work. Therefore, China should explore more rational mode of teaching in higher education, so that students can continue to grow the capacity is no longer idle.
斯坦福大学：中国学生批判性思维最强，却遭高等教育扼杀 - 大学,高等教育 - IT资讯
IT资讯讯 根据一项来自斯坦福大学的研究表明，一向被认为缺乏批判性思维的中国学生实际上这项能力世界最强，但这一优势在高等教育阶段却逐渐失去优势，这很可能意味着中国的大学教育存在问题。
这项研究证明中国学生并非只会死记硬背，批判性思维在全世界也是名列前茅，然而这项能力却在进入大学后消失殆尽。例如计算机科学和工程专业的新生入学时，其批判性思维能力比美国和俄罗斯的同类新生的水平高两到三年。这些能力包括识别假定、验证假设，以及找到变量之间的关系等。但这些能力却并没有在大学期间得到进一步锻炼，相比之下，美俄两国的学生却在上了两年大学之后能力有明显提高。
斯坦福大学的研究者推测，这可能和中国大学严进宽出，以及近年来的扩招有很大关系。很多中国学生在进入大学之前都在高压之下很努力地备战高考，思维能力得到了充分的训练，然而进入大学后就压力全无的“刀枪入库”，身心放松，很少再有动力去锻炼自己的各方面能力，并且能够轻松毕业。这也是很多大学无法真正培养出人才的原因之一。
对比美俄等国外大学，他们实行宽进严出的策略，这使得学生们在进入大学后能够绷紧一根弦努力学习，从而让自己的能力得到充分训练，进而在步入社会后能够更好地利用所学知识进行工作。所以，中国的高等教育应该探索更加合理的教学模式，让学生能够继续增长各方面能力，不再虚度光阴。