Critical and Creative Teaching/Assessment Projects by Focus or Discipline
This page contains critical and creative teaching/assessment projects by focus or discipline, including:
- Pedagogy and Faculty Development
- Interdisciplinary
- Architecture/Design
- Agriculture
- Animal Science
- Business/Economics
- Computer Science/Information Technology
- Design
- Engineering
- Law
- Library/Information Literacy
- Psychology
- Science
- Sociology
- Textiles
- Veterinary Medicine/Medicine
- Writing/Writing Across the Curriculum
- Distance Learning/Technology-Based Instruction
Pedagogy and Faculty Development
Barkley, E. F. (2010) Student engagement techniques: A handbook for college faculty. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
Behar-Horenstein, L.S , Schneider-Mitchell, G., & Graff, R. (2009) Promoting the teaching of critical thinking skills through faculty development. Journal of Dental Education, 73(6), 665-675.
Bell, S. (2010). “Design Thinking” and higher education. Inside Higher Ed. Retrieved from http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2010/03/02/bell
Jackson, N. (Ed.). (2006). Developing creativity in higher education: An imaginative curriculum. New York: Routledge.
This edited volume claims to be the first to address the teaching of creativity in higher education. It includes articles such as: “Developing subject perspectives on creativity in higher education,” “Views from the chalk face: lecturers” and students” perspectives on the development of creativity in art and design,” “Developing students’ creativity: searching for an appropriate pedagogy,” “Enhancing students’ creativity through creative-thinking techniques,” “How should I assess creativity?” “Developing higher education teachers to teach creatively,” and “Making sense of creativity in higher education.”
Dai, D. Y. (2012.) Design research on learning and thinking in educational settings: enhancing intellectual growth and functioning. New York: Routledge.
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Interdisciplinary
Davis, M. (1999). Design’s inherent interdisciplinarity: the arts in integrated curricula. Arts Education Policy Review, 101 (1), 8.
Halpern, D. F. (1998). Teaching critical thinking for transfer across domains. American Psychologist, 53(4), 449-455.
Rudd, R. D., Langkamp-Henken, B., & Herrlinger-Garcia, K. (2004). Teaching for critical thinking in an undergraduate service learning course. NACTA Journal, 48(4), 73.
Livingston, L. (2010). Teaching creativity in higher education. Arts Education Policy Review, 111(2), 59.
David, P. & Middendorf, J. (2004). Decoding the disciplines: Helping students learn disciplinary ways of thinking. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
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Architecture/Design
Davis, M. (1997). Design as a Catalyst for Learning. Alexandria, Va: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development.
Doppelt, Y. (2009). Assessing creative thinking in design-based learning. International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 19(1), 55-65.
Hargrove, R. (Ed.). (2008). Design Thinking in the Design Disciplines. Raleigh, N. C.: NC State University College of Design.
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Agriculture
Friedel, C. R., Ricketts, J. C., Irani, T.A., Rudd, R.D. & Gallo-Meaghar, M. (2004). Teaching critical thinking skills in the context of biotechnology. NACTA Journal, 48(4), 66.
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Animal Science
Morgan, L. M. (2007). Assessment of predictors of critical thinking ability in animal science undergraduates. Journal of animal science, 85, 460.
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Business/Economics
Borg, J. R. & Borg, M. O. (2001). Teaching critical thinking in interdisciplinary economics courses. College Teaching, 49(1), 20-25.
Greenlaw, S. A. & DeLoach, S. B. (2003). Teaching critical thinking with electronic discussion. The Journal of Economic Education, 34 (1), 36-52.
Nentl, N. & Zietlow, R. (2008). Using Bloom’s Taxonomy to teach critical thinking skills to business students. College and Undergraduate Libraries, 15(1-2), 159-172.
Peach, B. E., Mukherjee, A. & Hornyak, M. (2007). Assessing critical thinking: A college’s journey and lessons learned. Journal of Education for Business, 82(6), 313-320.
Macpherson, K. (1999). The development of critical thinking skills in undergraduate supervisory management units. Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education, 24(3), 273.
Wang, S. & Wang, H. (2011). Teaching design thinking through case analysis: Joint analytical process. Decision Sciences, 9(1), 113-118.
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Computer Science/Information Technology
Kaasboll, J. J. (1998). Teaching critical thinking and problem defining skills. Education and Information Technologies, 3(2), 101-117.
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Design
Piotrowski, C. M. (2011). Problem solving and critical thinking for designers. Hoboken: Wiley.
Stewart, S. C. (2011). Interpreting design thinking. Design Studies, 32(6), 515-520.
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Engineering
Dym, C. L., Agogino, A. M., Eris, O., Frey, D.D., & Leifer, L. J. (2006). Engineering design thinking, teaching, and learning. Journal of Engineering Education, 94(1), 103-120.
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Law
James, N. (2012) Logical, critical and creative: Teaching “thinking skills” to law students. Law and Justice Journal, 12(1), 66-88.
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Library/Information Literacy
Allen, M. (2008). Promoting critical thinking skills in online information literacy instruction using a constructivist approach. College and Undergraduate Libraries, 15(1-2), 21-38.
Detmering, R. & Johnson, A. M. (2011). Focusing on the thinking, not the tools: Incorporating critical thinking into an information literacy module for an introduction to business course. Journal of Business and Finance Librarianship, 16(2), 101-107.
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Psychology
Halonen, J. S. (1995). Demystifying critical thinking. Teaching of Psychology, 22(1), 75-81.
Rimiene, V. (2000). The assessment and comparative analysis of students’ critical thinking skills. International Journal of Psychology, 35(3-4), 449.
Yanchar, S.C. & Slife, B. D. (2004). Teaching critical thinking by examining assumptions. Teaching of Psychology, 31(2) 85-90.
Yanchar, S. C., Slife, B. D., & Warne, R. (2008). Critical thinking as disciplinary practice. Review of General Psychology, 12(3), 265-281.
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Science
DeHaan, R. L. (2011). Teaching creative science thinking. Science, 334(6062), 1499-1500.
Hager, P., Sleet, R., Logan, P., & Hooper, M. (2003). Teaching critical thinking in undergraduate science courses. Science and Education, 12(3), 303-313.
Lynd-Balta, E. & Allen, D. (2006). Using literature and innovative assessments to ignite interest and cultivate critical thinking skills in an undergraduate neuroscience course. CBE Life Sciences Education, 5(2), 167-174.
Miri, B., David, B., & Uri, Z. (2007). Purposely teaching for the promotion of higher-order thinking skills: A case of critical thinking. Research in Science Education, 37(4), 353-369.
Taylor, P. (1999). Teaching “Critical and creative thinking” about science-in-society at the University of Massachusetts. Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society, 19(5), 424-425.
Van Gelder, T. (2005). Teaching critical thinking: Some lessons from cognitive science. College Teaching, 53(1), 41-46.
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Sociology
Munoz, E. A., Jaime, A. M., McGriff, D. L., Molina, A. H. (2012). Assessment of Student Learning: Estudios Chicana/o Cultivating Critical Cultural Thinking. Teaching Sociology, 40(1), 34-49.
Grauerholz, L. & Bouma-Holtrop, S. (2003). Exploring critical sociological thinking. Teaching Sociology, 31(4), 485-496.
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Textiles
Karpova, E., Marcketti, S. B., & Barker, J. (2011). The efficacy of teaching creativity: Assessment of student creative thinking before and after exercises. Clothing and Textiles Research Journal, 29(1), 52-66.
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Veterinary Medicine/Medicine
Buur, J. L., Schmidt, P., Smylie, D., Irizarry, K., Crocker, C., Tyler, J., & Barr, M. (2012). Validation of a scenario-based assessment of critical thinking using an externally validated tool. Journal of Veterinary Medical Education, 39(3), 276-282.
Cisneros, R. M. (2009). Assessment of critical thinking in pharmacy students. American Journal of Pharmacy Education, 73(4), 66.
McNeal, A. P. & Mierson, S. (1999). Teaching critical thinking skills in physiology. Advances in Physiology Education, 22(1), 268-270.
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Writing Across the Curriculum
Armstrong, J. (2010). Designing a writing intensive course with information literacy and critical thinking learning outcomes. Reference Services Review, 18(3), 445-457.
Blattner, N. H. & Frazier, C. L. (2002). Developing a performance-based assessment of students’ critical thinking skills. Assessing Writing, 8(1), 47-64.
G. Cavdar & Doe, S. (2012). Learning through writing: Teaching critical thinking skills in writing assignments. Political Science and Politics, 45(2), 298-306.
Clark, M. M. (2009). Beyond critical thinking. Pedagogy, 9(2), 325-330.
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Distance Learning/Technology-based Instruction
Saade, R. G., Morin, D., & Thomas, J. D. E. (2012). Critical thinking in e-learning environments. Computers in Human Behavior, 28(5), 1608- 1617.
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