A Supporting Tool for Learning to Improve Thinking Skill through Reading Activities

Thinking skill is an important skill required in most of person's activities, especially in academic level. This paper proposes a tool to support in learning thinking skills from learning by example of good published articles. The focused concept of the tool is to analyze content expression and relations of the contents as a representation of thinking process. The tool is designed to assist on assigning pre-defined content type-related tags and relation among the chosen types on each clause from the selected articles. From experiments, the results showed that the tool helps to increase learning performance. The average precision and recall scores from tagging of the participants using the tool were higher than the participant not using the tool for 0.15 and 0.22, respectively. Moreover, the participants showed significant growth in thinking skills in terms of more correct analysis and critical thinking after using the tool.