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Edify7: A compendium of thoughts from practioners on tools and strategies for effective teaching: including methods for creating student-to-student relationship, small group participation, student-to-instructor interaction, and increased retention/knowledge transfer.
20 Years experience working with higher education instructors to engage students in new learning experiences. 10 years as adjunct faculty. Contact: susan.warner@uaf.edu
What are the best measures of learning success? How might real understanding be measured? Is it important to evaluate, beyond factual recall, improvements in critical thinking skills? How should that be measured?
posted by Susan | 5:02 PM
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Here is a "starter" definition for critical thinking from from Michael Scriven and Richard Paul for the National Council for Excellence in Criticl Thinking:
"Critical thinking is the intellectually disciplined process of actively and skillfully conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and/or evlauating information gathered from, or generated by, observation, experience, refection, reasoning, or communication, as a guide to belief and action"
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