Teaching Critical Thinking in Psychology: A Handbook of Best Practices

239 Learning to Think Like a Psychologist Best and Worst Revisited: Part II At the end of the course, students revisit their ini ...

Dana Gross 240 I feel that I’m much more aware of the potential problems and strengths of a study. I feel that with my new knowl ...

Report 2 Personal Mission Statements as Tools for Developing Writing and Reflection Skills Lawrence Benjamin Lewis and Elizabeth ...

Lawrence B. Lewis & Elizabeth Yost Hammer 242 The Personal Mission Statement Writing Assignment The assigned personal missio ...

243 Personal Mission Statements The largest differences were found when comparing students before they completed the project to ...

Lawrence B. Lewis & Elizabeth Yost Hammer 244 Benefits of Writing a Personal Mission Statement As described by Stephen R. Co ...

245 Personal Mission Statements an important question arose: How would I put my love for sports and medicine together? I have be ...

Report 3 A Module-Based Research Project: Modeling Critical Thinking in Psychology Nina Lamson and Katherine Kipp Asking student ...

Nina Lamson & Katherine Kipp 248 words on the cell phone as they walked the maze. The instructor analyzed and shared the dat ...

249 A Module-Based Research Project Step 6: The Results Section Students receive the instructor-analyzed data from the in-class ...

Nina Lamson & Katherine Kipp 250 Assessing Critical Thinking The module-based approach outlined here offers several opportun ...

Report 4 Effectively Using Literature Circles in the Psychology Classroom Rebecca Wenrich Wheeler Literature circles function as ...

Rebecca Wenrich Wheeler 252 Additionally, the instructor models questioning techniques emphasizing the value of becoming a thoug ...

253 Literature Circles ways for all students to access the material. I allow students to look through the books before making th ...

Rebecca Wenrich Wheeler 254 or even create board games and comic strips. The product demonstrates that the students understand h ...

255 Literature Circles Author’s Note Special acknowledgement to Tonya Hinton and John Velasquez who assisted in manuscript editi ...

Report 5 Introducing Controversial Issues in Psychology Through Debate and Reflection Sherri B. Lantinga In the psychology educa ...

Sherri B. Lantinga 258 Position Paper (Individual) After choosing their topic, students individually read a related pair of arti ...

259 Controversial Issues: Debate and Reflection response scales (1 = strongly disagree and 4 = strongly agree). Three open-ended ...

Sherri B. Lantinga 260 presentations and gave students 5 days to complete the assignment. I used the same grading rubric for the ...