WWW LINKS TO RESOURCES FOR TEACHING
REASONING AND CRITICAL THINKING
Compiled by William Peirce
Prince George's Community College
(Updated January 2006)
Maryland Community College Consortium for Teaching Reasoning
http://academic.pg.cc.md.us/~wpeirce/MCCCTR
Teaching Thinking Network of Association for Supervision and
Curriculum
Development
http://www.usd.edu/thinking
Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC)
http://www.eric.ed.gov/
Search the
ERIC database for articles on teaching thinking in your discipline.
ERIC Clearinghouse on Assessment and Evaluation
http://ericae.net/
Excellent resource until closed by the U.S. Dept. of
Education
Foundation for Critical Thinking
http://www.criticalthinking.org
Writing Center for Faculty at University of Delaware
http://www.english.udel.edu/wc/
Click on the "Faculty" tab for excellent
tip sheets for faculty across the curriculum on topics such as building written and oral
communication into your
classroom, responding to student writing, managing
the paper load, peer review, grading rubrics, and managing grammar.
ECAC
World Wide Web Sites Electronic
Communication Across the Curriculum
http://www.wordsworth2.net/resource/ecac-writing/ecacindex.htm
Links to Web resources for teaching online and other
uses of
electronic communication.
Campus Writing
Program Library Directory, Indiana University, Bloomington
http://www.indiana.edu/~wts/cwp/lib/libdir.html
Click on "Critical Thinking" for a list of articles and abstracts on
critical thinking; also contains articles on writing across the
curriculum in
many disciplines.
Critical Thinking On The Web
http://www.austhink.org/critical
Resources on critical thinking by Tim van
Gelder of the University of Melbourne.
Resources for Writing
Across the Curriculum and Cooperative Learning
http://home.capecod.net/~tpanitz/
Very large compilation by Ted Panitz of many teachers' examples of
activities
and assignments that engage students in course content through writing
and/or
collaborative learning.
WolcottLynch Associates
http://www.wolcottlynch.com
Resources on
critical thinking for teachers and
a web-based tutorial on critical thinking for students
Insight Assessment (Assessing critical thinking)
http://www.insightassessment.com
See also The Holistic Critical Thinking Scoring
Rubric at http://www.insightassessment.com/HCTSR.html
Inquiry:
Critical Thinking Across the
Disciplines [journal]
http://www.pdcnet.org/inq.html
Critical Thinking Across the Curriculum Project, Longview Community
College
http://www.kcmetro.cc.mo.us/longview/ctac/ctac.htm
Mission: Critical [interactive tutorials teach critical
thinking] (San Jose State University)
http://www2.sjsu.edu/depts/itl/
Writing Across
the Curriculum Clearinghouse
http://wac.colostate.edu/
Lists of resources for communication across the
curriculum, including www
links, bibliographies, articles, and WAC programs at other colleges and
universities.
Communcation Across the Curriculum at Southern Illinois University
Carbondale
http://www.siu.edu/departments/cac/
"Integrating Written, Spoken, Visual, and Electronic
Communication Across the Curriculum."
Links to centers for faculty professional
development at University of Kansas Center for Teaching Excellence
http://www.ku.edu/~cte/resources/websites.html
Resources for College Teaching, including teaching thinking,
by James Bell of Howard
Community College
http://classweb.howardcc.edu/jbell/resources/index.html
Anne Arundel Community College. Center for the Advancement of Learning
and Teaching.
Resources for Teaching
http://www2.aacc.edu/calt/calt/teaching_section_a.htm#Critical%20Thinking
Dan Kurland's Critical Reading website
http://www.criticalreading.com
Vale Press ("Critical Thinking Specialists")
http://www.valepress.com
Critical Thinking Books and Software [Publisher]
http://www.criticalthinking.com
Reason!Able [software for critical thinking]
http://www.goreason.com
THREE SITES ON PROBLEM-BASED LEARNING:
Illinois Math and Science Academy Center for
Problem-Based Learning
http://www2.imsa.edu/programs/pbl/cpbl.html
The University of Delaware
http://www.udel.edu/pbl/
Samford University Problem-Based Learning Initiative
http://www.samford.edu/pbl
To: Resources for Teaching Thinking: Books
To: Useful URL's for Students in Argument
Courses
To PGCC annotated list of documents
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