Promoting critical thinking to your students : being nobody's fool -- The critical thinking literature : a sticky thicket -- Ten reasons why teaching critical thinking is so challenging -- Formulating critical thinking learning outcomes -- Fostering your students' cognitive awareness to teach critical thinking -- Asking your students the right questions to teach critical thinking -- Using the most effective methods to teach critical thinking -- Assessing your students' critical thinking with objective items -- Assessing your students' critical thinking with constructed-response questions and tasks -- Assessing constructed responses using rubrics -- Assessing constructed responses using specifications grading -- Critical thinking and the promise of higher education.
Summary:
"Critical thinking-every scholar in the literature has defined it, but there is no clearly agreed upon definition. No wonder polls and surveys reveal that few college-level faculty can define critical thinking or know how to teach it. Still, critical thinking keeps appearing in accreditation standards and surveys of the skills employers seek in college graduates"-- Provided by publisher.
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