Critical Thinking Web- and Bibliography

Lesson Plan# ALEP-COH0004. Fostering critical thinking skills for consumer health decisions. An activity to develop consumer health skills among secondary school students.
http://www.askeric.org/Virtual/Lessons/Health/Consumer_Health/COH0004.html

Health, safety, and nutrition for the young child, 5E [by] Lynn R. Marotz, Marie Z. Cross, and Jeanettia M. Rush. Class unit on understanding the different ways that people define and approach health and healthcare.
http://www.earlychilded.delmar.com/resources/marotz/criticalthinking/reflective-unit2.html

Media Education in the Classroom.
Increase awareness of tobacco marketing and review the effects of smoking.
http://www.media-awareness.ca/eng/med/class/teamedia/true.htm

Bardach E. (2000) Practical Guide for Policy Analysis: the eightfold path to more effective problem solving. NY: Chathan Pubs 2000.

"Communication studies group consensus exam" LaVonne K. Wahl. Students use critical thinking and group decision-making skills.
http://planet.tvi.cc.nm.us/ctac/teachideas/Wahl.consensus.htm

Critical thinking and problem solving skills.
http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/critical.htm

Critical Thinking in Design: Part 1 Project Planning, Part 11 Idea Generation, Part 111 Project Management
http://www.uiweb.com/issues/issue16.htm

Five Steps to Better Critical-thinking, Problem-Solving, and Decision-Making Skills'
http://www.westwords.com/GUFFEY/critical.html

Kirtland Assessment. Target Area: Occupational Education
http://k2.kirtland.cc.mi.us/~assess/oe.htm

Dentistry

Curriculum: Critical thinking in dentistry
Two courses designed to help students reinforce and incorporate the basic medical sciences in the care of their patients.
http://sdm.uchc.edu/predoctoral/curriculum/criticalthinking.shtml

Distance Education

MacKnight, C.B. (2000) "Teaching critical thinking through online discussions". EDUCAUSE Quarterly. 2000:4 Using online discussion and presentation tools to encourage intellectual growth and the development of critical thinking skills.

Selected papers on issues in distance learning. A compilation of Web-accessible papers on general distance learning issues.
http://www.lis.uiuc.edu/~b-sloan/libdist.html#Issues

Anatomy lesson.
A short lesson in critical thinking.
http://www.mssm.edu/students/linb01/GrossAnatomy.html

Critical Thinking Across the Curriculum Project: Coaching winners: How to teach critical thinking. Integrating critical thinking skills into the health care professional curriculum.
http://www.kcmetro.cc.mo.us/longview/ctac/winners.htm

Critical thinking on the web; a directory of quality online resources.
Subject areas addressed include Nursing and Teaching.
http://www.philosophy.unimelb.edu.au/reason/critical/index.htm

Critical thinking in health care. A problem-based learning approach to assist students in developing critical thinking skills in health care from the University of Florida.
http://www.hp.ufl.edu/courses/hsc4608l/

Effective Teaching in Agricultural and Life Sciences
www.ais.msstate.edu/TALS

Understanding dietetics and nutrition through the computer.
http://www.educause.edu/asp/conf/function.asp?pin=&product_code=e01/ps065&meeting=e01

The use of critical thinking skills to analyze health disparities
Skill building in using critical thinking techniques; includes a list of references.
http://www.etr.org/recapp/practice/edskills200107.htm

Print References

Alavi,C, ed. (1995) Problem-based learning in a health sciences curriculum. London: Routledge.

Health Expectations [journal]
The purpose of this journal is to "promote critical thinking and informed debate about all aspects of public participation in health care and health policy."

American Library Association, ACRL's National Information Literacy Initiative.
Final report of information literacy programs.
http://www.ala.org/acrl/nili/ilit1st.html

Bibliography on evaluating Internet resources.
Includes websites and print resources related to teaching and using critical thinking skills to evaluate Internet information.
http://www.lib.vt.edu/research/libinst/evalbiblio.html

Center for Media Literacy.
http://www.medialit.org
http://www.medialit.org/othersites.html

Center for Media Literacy Reading Room Case Studies. An outline for adding media literacy to a school curriculum.
http://www.medialit.org/ReadingRoom/casestudies/cs_olm.html

Checklist for an advocacy web page. Widener University's Wolfgram Memorial Library staff presents guidelines for recognizing an advocacy web page and a checklist for evaluating its contents.
http://www2.widener.edu/Wolfgram-Memorial-Library/webevaluation/advoc.htm

Critical Evaluation of WWW Sites
http://7-12educators.about.com/cs/ctevalwww/index.htm

Critical thinking and information literacy across the curriculum.
The Bellevue Community College project for including critical thinking and information literacy skills in the curriculum.
http://ir.bcc.ctc.edu/library/ilac/default.htm

Critical thinking and hypertext [by] Christopher W. Foltz.
When critical thinking and rational decision making skills are applied to the world of hypertext, students have the opportunity to create new realms of ideas.
http://www.wiu.edu/users/mucwf/crit.html

Critical thinking in an online world http://www.wvu.edu./%7Elawfac/jelkins/thinking.html

Critical thinking in an online world [by] Debra Jones (1996). Describes and instructional design project for teaching critical thinking skills for evaluating online resources.
http://www.library.ucsb.edu/untangle/jones.html

Evaluating Information Found on the Internet, EE Kirk, 1996, updated 2001.
http://milton.mse.jhu.edu:8001/research/education/net.html

Evaluating Internet information. Questions and tips to evaluate information found on the Internet.
http://www.lib.vt.edu/research/libinst/idle/evaluating.html

Evaluating Web Resources
http://www2.widener.edu/Wolfgram-Memorial-Library/webevaluation/webeval.htm

FIU - Information Literacy. Comprehensive site offering information about the FIU Information Literacy program and links to similar efforts in the U.S.
http://www.fiu.edu/~library/ili/index.html

ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading, English and Communication
ERIC Digest 44: How to Read Television: Teaching Students to View TV Critically by NK Aiex. http://www.indiana.edu/~eric_rec/ieo/digests/d44.html

ICYouSee: T is for Thinking. ICYOUSEE Guide to Critical Thinking about What You See on the Web
http://www.ithaca.edu/library/Training/hott.html

The Learning Page's media analysis tools
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/lessons/media.html

Media Awareness Network. Practical support for media education; for families and schools.
http://www.media-awareness.ca/eng

Media Education in the Classroom.Increase awareness of tobacco marketing and review the effects of smoking.
http://www.media-awareness.ca/eng/med/class/teamedia/true.htm

The Media Literacy Clearinghouse: Information geared towards K-12 educators and how to incorporate media literacy into curriculums. Frank Baker, web master/media educator Columbia South Carolina.
http://www.med.sc.edu/medialit

Metamedia Literacy: Transforming Meanings and Media by JL Lemke, CUCNY, Brooklyn College School of Education.
http://www.schools.ash.org.au/litweb/page500.html

Privacy in the Information Age: helping students develop critical awareness about privacy and the security of personal information.
http://www.media-awareness.ca/eng/issues/priv/resources/privunit.htm

Quinebaug Valley Community-Technical College.
Outlines the elements of information literacy; includes excerpts from the ALA position paper.
http://www.qvctc.commnet.edu/llc/infolit.html

Shapiro, J.J. and Hughes, S.K. (1996) "Information literacy as a liberal art; enlightenment proposals for a new curriculum". EDUCOM Review 31:2 (March/April 1996)
What does it mean to be information-literate in a society increasingly affected by information-technology issues?

Strategic Alliance Links Center for Media Literacy and Teacher's Discovery.
Collaboration on new product development to serve the growing media literacy marketplace.
http://www.medialit.org/pr_111201.html

Sneak Peek, new resources for Media Literacy education
http://www.medialit.org/Catalog/sneakpeak/nov2001.html

Texas Information Literacy Tutorial T.I.L.T.
http://tilt.lib.utsystem.edu/

Teaching information literacy in the digital age. From Baltimore County Public School System, the site includes assessments and scoring tools, best practices, and curriculum tools.
http://www.bcpl.net/~dcurtis/teachinfolit/

UCLA College Library: Thinking Critically about WWW Resources. Teach yourself how to think critically about Wolrd Wide Web resources.
http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/college/help/critical/index.htm

YCP Information Literacy.
Sidebar addresses how to locate materials, how to evaluate the materials, and how to use them effectively after forming a focused question or hypothesis.
http://www.ycp.edu/library/ifl/etext/etintro.htm

Librarianship

Love, E. (1987) "The science of medical librarianship: investing in the future" Bulletin of the Medical Library Association Oct;75(4):302-9.

A school media specialist's introductory guide to developing critical thinking and inquiry skills using web-based resources and activities.
http://www.monroe.lib.in.us/~lchampel/webinq.html

Nursing

Basic nursing: a critical thinking approach. A website based on the book.
http://www.harcourthealth.com/MERLIN/Potter/Basic

Critical Thinking Across the Curriculum Project: Coaching winners: How to teach critical thinking. Integrating critical thinking skills into the health care professional curriculum.
http://www.kcmetro.cc.mo.us/longview/ctac/winners.htm

Critical thinking in community health. Class taught by Karin Domnick at the University of Toronto; ". . . to refine critical thinking skills in health"
http://www.phs.utoronto.ca/courses/s_5003.htm

Critical thinking: To think like a nurse. http://www.wvu.edu/~lawfac/jelkins/thinking.html

Critical thinking [6 exercises]. Case studies based on: Green's Critical thinking in nursing: case studies across the curriculum
http://www.pccua.cc.ar.us/ahudson/lectures1.htm

Critical thinking in nursing: case studies. Practice critical thinking skills through the analysis of case studies.
http://www.homesteadschools.com/Nursing/descriptions/CriticalThinking.htm

Critical thinking scenarios for RN students. A web page from the Regional Health Occupations Resource Center.
http://www.sbcc.cc.ca.us/academic/rhorc/criticalthinking.html

Online Journal of Knowledge Synthesis for Nursing. A paid subscription is required.
http://stti-web.iupui.edu/library/ojksn/

Print References

Journal of Advanced Nursing [journal]

Nursing and health related fields
Bibliography; includes a wide range of material.
http://www.cte.usf.edu/bibs/c_thinking/nurse/bib_nurse.html

Public Health Nursing [journal]

Alfaro-Lefevre, R. (1999) Critical thinking in nursing: a practical approach. Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders.

Benner, P.E. (1996) Expertise in nursing practice: caring, clinical judgement, and ethics. New York: Springer.

Burnard, P. (1991) Experiential learning in action. Aldershot, Hants, England: Gower.

Burns, S. and C. Bulman, eds. (2000) Refelective practice in nursing. Oxford: Blackwell Scientific.

Canobbio, M.M. (1996) Mosby's handbook of patient teaching. St. Louis: Mosby

Ewan, C.E. (1996) Teaching nursing: a self-instructional handbook. San Diego, Calif.:Singular,

Facione, N.C. and P.A. Facione (1997) Critical thinking assessment in nursing education programs: an aggregate data analysis. Millbrae, Calif.: California Academic Press.

Green, C.J. (2000) Critical thinking in nursing: case studies across the curriculum. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall Health.

Ignatavicius, D.D. and M.L. Workman (2001) Medical-surgical nursing. Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders.

Mayer, R. and F. Goodchild (1995) The critical thinker. Santa Barbara, Calif.: Brown & Benchmark.

Meltzer, M. and S.M. Palau (1996) Acquiring critical thinking skills. Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders.

Neary, M. (2000) Teaching, assessing, and evaluation for clinical competence: a practical guide for practitioners and teachers. Cheltenham, Glos.: Stanley Thomas.

O'Connor, A.B. (2001) Clinical instruction and evaluation: a teaching resource. Boston: Jones and Bartlett.

Rideout, E. (2001) Transforming nursing education through problem-based learning. Boston: Jones and Bartlett

Rubenfield, M. G. (1999) Critical thinking in nursing: an interactive approach. Philadelphia: Lippincott.

Tagliareni, M.E. and B.B.Marckx, eds. (1999) Teaching in the community: preparing nurses for the 21st century. Sudbury, Mass.: Jones and Bartlett.

Physical Therapy

Graham, C.L. (1996) "Conceptual learning processes in physical therapy students" Physical Therapy. 1996 Aug; 76(8):856-65.

Van Langenberghe, H.V. (1988) "An evaluation of students' approaches to studying in a problem-based physical therapy curriculum" Physical Therapy. 1988 Apr; 68(4):522-9.

Psychology

Arguments: the basic units of critical thinking in psychology
Psychology is full of arguments, assertions with empirical evidence and theoretical support; identifying arguments is a key step in critical thinking.
http://www.necc.cc.ms.us/~cbillin/criticalthinker.htm

Exploring psychology scientifically - asking testable questions.
The first step in doing psychology scientifically is learning how to ask testable questions.
http://gateway1.gmcc.ab.ca/~digdonn/psych104/think.htm

How critical thinking integrated into general psychology at . . . Howard Community College.
Class exercises and a bibliography of sources, including video.
http://admin.nj.devry.edu/keepers/cti.htm

Social Work 6011: Critical thinking and ethical evaluation for assessment and intervention.
Course syllabus from Memorial University of Newfoundland.
http://courses.mun.ca/scwk6011/resources.html

Gambrill, E. (1997) Social work practice: a critical thinker's guide. Oxford University Press USA. ISBN: 0195113322

Gibbs, L., and Gambrill, E. (1999) Critical thinking for social workers: exercises for the helping professions. Rev. Ed. Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge Press. ISBN: 0761986081

Information competencies for social work students
Sponsored by the Education and Behavioral Sciences Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ALA), provides links to information on critical thinking and research skills, and more, selected especially for social work students.
http://www.lib.wayne.edu/purdy/librarians/slawler/critical.html

Veterinary Medicine

Critical thinking for the veterinary profession: evaluating therapeutic claims in a rapidly changing world. A conference held at the University of Missouri, Columbia, on October 20-21, 2001.
http://www.seanet.com/~vettf/Conspeak.htm

The Alternative medicine advisory page.
The National Council Against Health Fraud page dealing with the issues of unproven therapeutic claims, pseudoscience, critical thinking, and health fraud in veterinary medicine. View with Microsoft Explorer.
http://www.seanet.com/~vettf/

Suggested search terms include:
Critical thinking (subject)
Nursing study and teaching (subject)
Learning strategies (key word)
Nursing problems exercises etc (subject)
Physical therapy (subject)
Clinical skills and Critical thinking

Catalogs:

Library of Congress Online Catalog
http://catalog.loc.gov

VICTORWeb; The University System of Maryland
http://victorweb.lib.umd.edu

Databases:

MEDLINEplus.
http://medlineplus.gov

PubMed.
http://pubmed.gov

Synergy.
Online, searchable database of journals from Blackwell Science and Munksgaard.
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/

ERIC and ERIC/REC resources

There are a number of materials dealing with the subject of critical thinking in the ERIC and ERIC/REC databases. Search terms to use include:
Critical thinking
Decision making
Problem solving

Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC)
http://www.eric.ed.gov/

ERIC Clearinghouse on Assessment and Evaluation
http://ericae.net/

Critical thinking resources from ERIC
http://www.indiana.edu/~eric_rec/bks/ct.html

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