CRITICAL THINKING  RESOURCES

Promoting Students' Intellectual Growth

This article discusses four stages of development of higher order thinking in young adults and how we, as instructors, can help them become more reflective in their understanding and thinking.

http://trc.virginia.edu/Publications/Teaching_Concerns/Fall_2000/TC_Fall_2000_Barnett.htm

Critical Thinking - What is Critical Thinking?

The Faculty Handbook at the University of California at Davis contains an article entitled "Helping Students Evaluate Their Thinking." The major premise of the article is that for students to improve their higher order thinking skills, they must be able to assess their reasoning ability and the author provides a set of eight guidelines that students can use to evaluate their thinking.

http://dhc.ucdavis.edu/fh/ct/whatis.html

Teaching Critical Thinking

This article focuses on using writing assignments to enhance students’ critical thinking abilities.

http://www.dartmouth.edu/~writing/materials/faculty/pedagogies/thinking.shtml

Helping Your Students Develop Critical Thinking Skills

The authors of this article discuss the process for developing critical thinking abilities, which they call “Steps for Better Thinking,” and then focus on how to design appropriate educational experiences that will support this process.

http://www.idea.ksu.edu/papers/Idea_Paper_37.pdf

Collaborative Learning Enhances Critical Thinking

This article presents the author’s research on utilizing collaborative learning techniques to foster students’ development of critical thinking abilities.

http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/JTE/jte-v7n1/gokhale.jte-v7n1.html

Teaching for Critical Thinking:  Helping College Students Develop the Skills and Dispositions of a Critical Thinker

Diana Halpern discusses her Four-Part Model for critical thinking instruction.

http://education.gsu.edu/ctl/FLC/Foundations/criticalthinking-Halpern.pdf

Critical Thinking

This article from the University of Tennessee Teaching Resource Center defines eight characteristics of critical thinking and then identifies a number a strategies that faculty can utilize to help promote students’ critical thinking abilities.

http://www.utc.edu/Administration/WalkerTeachingResourceCenter/FacultyDevelopment/CriticalThinking/#characteristics