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 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

Editor: Dunn, Dana S, Editor: Halonen, Jane S, Editor: Smith, Randolph A

Topic: Psychology
Media: Book
ISBN: 1405174021
Language: English
Pages: 298