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Griffiths, Elizabeth – College Teaching, 2010
The central goals of teaching are to educate students about the course material and stimulate their intellectual development more generally. Yet faculty have few avenues to assess teaching effectiveness on these fronts, and students have few opportunities to reflect upon their own growth as scholars and citizens. This article details an exercise…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Educational Experience, Intellectual Development, Higher Education
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Bowman, Richard F., Jr. – College Teaching, 1985
The traditional college curriculum is seen as a collection of answers for students who do not yet have the questions; an alternative approach that nurtures students' capacities for inquiry is suggested and outlined. (MSE)
Descriptors: College Curriculum, College Instruction, Critical Thinking, Educational Change
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MacDonald, Stephen C. – College Teaching, 1988
A teaching workshop for faculty from member liberal arts colleges in the Central Pennsylvania Consortium is reported. Presentations of the William Perry scheme of student intellectual and moral development are described. (MLW)
Descriptors: College Faculty, Critical Thinking, Educational Quality, Higher Education
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Baker, Christopher – College Teaching, 1991
Literature and liberal arts college students' early research experience usually stresses methodology and is carefully structured and supervised. In advanced work, students must begin to develop habits of critical thinking, personal involvement with their material, and development of a metacritical attitude. (MSE)
Descriptors: College Instruction, Critical Thinking, Higher Education, Humanities
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Harrigan, Anne; Vincenti, Virginia – College Teaching, 2004
The purpose of this scholarship of teaching research is to assess the effectiveness of a cross-cultural problem-solving assignment in two senior-level family and consumer sciences courses at the University of Wyoming. We focus on the development of selected cognitive and affective critical-thinking skills in undergraduates and their international…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Thinking Skills, Skill Development, Problem Solving
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Kloss, Robert J. – College Teaching, 1994
This article discusses William G. Perry's model of intellectual development, which posits that college students move through four phases of understanding their relationship to knowledge: dualism (knowledge as received truth), multiplicity (knowledge as opinion), relativism (knowledge as relativistic), and commitment in relativism. Specific…
Descriptors: Classification, Classroom Techniques, Cognitive Style, College Instruction