title: Argument Maps Improve Critical Thinking creator: Twardy, Dr. Charles R. subject: Applied Cognitive Psychology description: Computer-based argument mapping greatly enhances student critical thinking, more than tripling absolute gains made by other methods. I describe the method and my experience as an outsider. Argument mapping often showed precisely how students were erring (for example: confusing helping premises for separate reasons), making it much easier for them to fix their errors. date: 2003 type: Preprint type: PeerReviewed format: application/pdf identifier: http://cogprints.org/3008/1/reasonpaper.pdf identifier: Twardy, Dr. Charles R. (2003) Argument Maps Improve Critical Thinking. [Preprint] relation: http://cogprints.org/3008/