Development of critical thinking skills in university education: A systematic review

Abstract

This article corresponds to a systematic review, which aims to characterize the research field on the development of critical thinking skills and analyze the learning strategies used in the educational field of university training. The search is carried out in the WoS and Scopus databases. With a final sample of 64 articles, a bibliometric and content analysis is carried out, investigating: Most used keywords, countries of study, year of publication, language, scientific journals, areas of professional training, research methodologies, learning strategies used to promote critical thinking skills and taxonomies of skills used in the studies of the corresponding sample to 59 countries and 6 papers did not report the country of study. The main results show that: The countries with the highest number of publications are the United States and Indonesia; English continues to predominate as the language of knowledge and the most used learning strategies are those that give prominence to students in the learning process, such as problem-based learning, projects, technology, cases and cooperative learning, as well as the combination of project-based flipped classroom for online learning.