Teaching Critical Thinking in Psychology: A Handbook of Best Practices
- ISBN-10
- 1444305182
- ISBN-13
- 9781444305180
- Category
- Psychology
- Pages
- 320
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2009-01-30
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons
- Authors
- Dana S. Dunn, Randolph A. Smith, Jane S. Halonen
Description
Teaching Critical Thinking in Psychology features currentscholarship on effectively teaching critical thinking skills at alllevels of psychology. Offers novel, nontraditional approaches to teaching criticalthinking, including strategies, tactics, diversity issues, servicelearning, and the use of case studies Provides new course delivery formats by which faculty cancreate online course materials to foster critical thinking within adiverse student audience Places specific emphasis on how to both teach and assesscritical thinking in the classroom, as well as issues of widerprogram assessment Discusses ways to use critical thinking in courses ranging fromintroductory level to upper-level, including statistics andresearch methods courses, cognitive psychology, and capstoneofferings
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