Critical Thinking in Software Engineering and Virtual Classrooms: What are we doing?

Abstract

Critical thinking consists of analyzing and evaluating the coherence of reasoning. This ability is considered crucial for the development of new software engineering professionals, given their continued need for problem-solving. The problem arises from the diversity of proposals and the lack of rigor of existing experiments, which makes it difficult to find specific recommendations to assessing critical thinking, especially in online contexts. This article analyzes the results obtained from the execution of a systematic mapping of the literature. We seek to raise awareness of what we are doing as an educational community and where we should be going.