caa a22 4500 605482993 CHVBK 20210128100429.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150401xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10551-014-2084-0 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10551-014-2084-0 Teaching Critical Thinking Skills: Ability, Motivation, Intervention, and the Pygmalion Effect [Elektronische Daten] [Larry Howard, Thomas Tang, M. Jill Austin] Using a Solomon four-group design, we investigate the effect of a case-based critical thinking intervention on students' critical thinking skills (CTA). We randomly assign 31 sessions of business classes (N=659 students) to four groups and collect data from three sources: in-class performance (CTA), university records (ACT, GPA, and demographic variables), and Internet surveys (learning and motivational goals). Our 2×2 ANOVA results showed no significant between-subjects differences. Contrary to our expectations, students improve their critical thinking skills, with or without the intervention. Female and Caucasian students improve their critical thinking skills, but males and non-Caucasian do not. Positive performance goals and negative mastery goals enhance and decrease improvements of their CTA scores, respectively. ACT and age are related to pre- and post-test. Gender (male) is related to pre-test. GPA is related to post-test. Results shed light on the Pygmalion effect, the Galatea effect, ability, motivation, and opportunity as signals for human capital, and business ethics. Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht, 2014 Critical thinking skills nationallicence Ability nationallicence Motivation nationallicence Race nationallicence Self-fulfilling prophesy nationallicence Priming effect nationallicence Howard Larry Department of Management and Marketing, Jennings A. Jones College of Business, Middle Tennessee State University, 37132, Murfreesboro, TN, USA aut Tang Thomas Department of Management and Marketing, Jennings A. Jones College of Business, Middle Tennessee State University, 37132, Murfreesboro, TN, USA aut Jill Austin M. Department of Management and Marketing, Jennings A. Jones College of Business, Middle Tennessee State University, 37132, Murfreesboro, TN, USA aut Journal of Business Ethics Springer Netherlands 128/1(2015-04-01), 133-147 0167-4544 128:1<133 2015 128 10551 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-014-2084-0 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-014-2084-0 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Howard Larry Department of Management and Marketing, Jennings A. Jones College of Business, Middle Tennessee State University, 37132, Murfreesboro, TN, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Tang Thomas Department of Management and Marketing, Jennings A. Jones College of Business, Middle Tennessee State University, 37132, Murfreesboro, TN, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Jill Austin M. Department of Management and Marketing, Jennings A. Jones College of Business, Middle Tennessee State University, 37132, Murfreesboro, TN, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Business Ethics Springer Netherlands 128/1(2015-04-01), 133-147 0167-4544 128:1<133 2015 128 10551