Teaching Critical Thinking in Psychology: A Handbook of Best Practices

153 Statistics & Research Methods ways to circumnavigate these barriers. Below we provide a variety of strategies—from speci ...

Bryan K. Saville et al. 154 and then analyze the results (e.g., Stedman, 1993). For example, students might conduct an experimen ...

155 Statistics & Research Methods Because students rarely hand-calculate statistics once they complete these courses, taking ...

Bryan K. Saville et al. 156 Of the 15 attributes/behaviors contained on Ferrett’s inventory, students in both sections reported ...

157 Statistics & Research Methods research method (e.g., descriptive research methods) and what types of question researcher ...

Bryan K. Saville et al. 158 as a question we have about psychology, then knowing that we have a particular strategy we need to a ...

159 Statistics & Research Methods Beins, B. C. (1985). Teaching the relevance of statistics through consumer-oriented resear ...

Bryan K. Saville et al. 160 Medvec, V. H., & Savitsky, K. (1997). When doing better means feeling worse: The effects of cate ...

Part IV Integrating Critical Thinking Across the Psychology Curriculum Teaching Critical Thinking in Psychology: A Handbook of B ...

Critical thinking is not one strategy, but many strategies. It involves the exercise and development of various skills aimed at ...

Dana S. Dunn & Randolph A. Smith 164 activities that promote critical thinking, and consider the unique role of American Psy ...

165 Writing as Critical Thinking advantage of their local resources because they remain unaware of their existence or because th ...

Dana S. Dunn & Randolph A. Smith 166 Learning from Exemplars How can students be taught to discern logical, evidence-based p ...

167 Writing as Critical Thinking key researchers and theorists, main issues, current research foci, and essential sources (e.g., ...

Dana S. Dunn & Randolph A. Smith 168 points of existing research, to describe the question being tested by their research ( ...

169 Writing as Critical Thinking (see the bottom section of Table 14.2). Such outcomes are important, but we do not want to dilu ...

Dana S. Dunn & Randolph A. Smith 170 The Results section requires that students think critically about the type of data they ...

171 Writing as Critical Thinking or details from a research report, flowery language would simply be extraneous and, perhaps, di ...

Dana S. Dunn & Randolph A. Smith 172 Given how hesitant students in research methods classes are to critique published artic ...

173 Writing as Critical Thinking Halonen, J., & Gray, C. (2000). The critical thinking companion for introductory psychology ...