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the use of TASC to develop a selection of tools for effective thinking 1 1 The author wishes to acknowledge the significant contributions of Suzanne Williams,Raeme Goves-Jacka,Herman Yip,Anna Eriksson,John Rose,Kim Vincent and Marisa Del Pin in the writing of this article.
This article describes a simple experiment that was carried out in order to see whether students improved in their thinking strategies as a result of training in the use of the TASC method of problem solving. An activity that was used to develop consensus decision making is then described together with some real life problems.
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