期刊名称：Journal of Economics and Economic Education Research
印刷版ISSN：1533-3604
出版年度：2017
卷号：18
期号：1
页码：1-13
语种：English
出版社：The DreamCatchers Group, LLC
摘要：Most of the education system focuses on developing students’ higher-order thinking skills nowadays. (Stupple et al., 2017). It is accepted that every student can think naturally. However, without appropriate learning experiences, students often struggle to develop higher order skills in complex domains such as economic thinking. While economics is often regarded as a difficult subject, it is reasonable to expect that students’ can apply economic principles to their daily lives. However, what does it mean to think like an economist? To think like an economist is the capacity to make a decisions, to be open to new evidence and the capacity to solve problems in daily life (Willingham, 2007). In short, it is the specific application of critical thinking to a problem area. However, the findings of Ferraro and Taylor (2005) indicate that economic students do not have deeper understanding of economics concepts or developed reasoning ability when compared to the science students. They also found that most economics classes only emphasize mathematical calculation and techniques to the detriment of economics reasoning ability. Malaysian graduates also face the same problem where their thinking ability is at a moderate level (Tarmizi et al. 2009). These findings imply that drastic and effective measures need to be taken at school level to prepare secondary school students to be effective employees who are able to think critically.
