Teaching Critical Thinking in Psychology: A Handbook of Best Practices [Paperback]

• 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

About the Editors.

Foreword (Diane F. Halpern, Claremont McKenna College).

Preface (Dana S. Dunn, Moravian College; Jane S. Halonen, University of West Florida; and Randolph A. Smith, Lamar University).

Acknowledgments.

1. Engaging Minds: Introducing Best Practices in Teaching Critical Thinking in Psychology (Dana S. Dunn, Moravian College; Jane S. Halonen, University of West Florida; and Randolph A. Smith, Lamar University).

Part I: The Case for Teaching Critical Thinking in Psychology.

2. Critical Thinking: Needed Now More Than Ever (Carole Wade, Dominican University of California).

3. Have We Demystified Critical Thinking? (Natalie Kerr Lawrence, Sherry L. Serdikoff, Tracy E. Zinn, and?Suzanne C. Baker, James Madison University).

4. Are They Ready Yet? Developmental Issues in Teaching Thinking (Laird R. O. Edman, Northwestern College).

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