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Teaching Critical Thinking in Psychology: A Handbook of Best Practices

By Dana S. Dunn , Jane S. Halonen , Randolph A. Smith

Book information

Year
2008
ISBN
140517403X, 9781405174039, 1405174021, 9781405174022, 9781444305180
LCC
BF441 .T35 2008
Open Library ID
OL16699439M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2177257 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
320\295
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Teaching Critical Thinking in Psychology features current scholarship on effectively teaching critical thinking skills at all levels of psychology. Offers novel, nontraditional approaches to teaching critical thinking, including strategies, tactics, diversity issues, service learning, and the use of case studiesProvides new course delivery formats by which faculty can create online course materials to foster critical thinking within a diverse student audiencePlaces specific emphasis on how to both teach and assess critical thinking in the classroom, as well as issues of wider program assessmentDiscusses ways to use critical thinking in courses ranging from introductory level to upper-level, including statistics and research methods courses, cognitive psychology, and capstone offerings

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