Teaching Critical Thinking in Psychology: A Handbook of Best PracticesISBN: 978-1-4051-7402-2
Paperback
320 pages
September 2008, Wiley-Blackwell
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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 studies
- Provides new course delivery formats by which faculty can create online course materials to foster critical thinking within a diverse student audience
- Places specific emphasis on how to both teach and assess critical thinking in the classroom, as well as issues of wider program assessment
- Discusses 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