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Six References for Teaching Critical Thinking
Category: Instructional Strategies
| Resource | Content |
|---|---|
| Marzano, Robert, et. al. Classroom Instruction That Works. Alexandria, VA: ASCD, 2001. | Identifies ways of enhancing students' use of knowledge with strategies such as summarizing, comparing, contrasting, classifying, creating metaphors, creating analogies, etc. |
| Anderson, Lorin, et. al. Taxonomy for Learning, Teaching and Assessing: A Revision of Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives. Boston, MA: Allyn and Bacon, 2000. | Reviews the fundamentals of Bloom's taxonomy and augments it by identifying additional types of thinking and applications of knowledge. Bloom's seminal work illustrates the difference between the assimilation of cursive information and the ability to construct complex analysis. |
| Fisher, Alec. Critical Thinking. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2001 | Defines critical thinking and addresses strategies to improve it, including detecting reason, evaluations of credibility, understanding inferences and assumptions. |
| Nelson, John. Cultivating Judgment: Sourcebook for Teaching Critical Thinking. Stillwater, Oklahoma: New Forum Press, 2005 | A creative approach to teaching critical thinking that includes fun examples of sound pedagogy that can easily be adapted for the university curriculum. |
| Barzun, Jacques. Teacher In America. NY: Liberty Press, 1981. | This reprint of the 1945 classic is a wonderful essay about the obligation all teachers have to advance the intellect by way of sound scholarship and regard for the context and meaning of what is learned. |
| Foundation for Critical Thinking | The Critical Thinking Foundation offers extensive articles, tests, assessments and a section on online learning, all in multiple languages, and hosts an International Conference on Critical Thinking. |
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