How to Improve Student Learning

30 Practical Ideas Based on Critical Thinking Concepts and Principles

Richard Paul and Linda Elder

In How to Improve Student Learning, critical thinking pioneer Richard Paul and educational psychologist Linda Elder distill decades of teaching experience into thirty methods to increase student comprehension and engagement in any area of study. Teachers and faculty at all levels will find these strategies easy to integrate into their teaching and learning process, and, when integrated, will see students begin to take ownership of their learning.

This guide builds on The Thinker's Guide to Active and Cooperative Learning and cultivates student development as encouraged in the Thinker's Guide for Students on How to Study and Learn a Discipline. As part of the Thinker’s Guide Library, this book advances the mission of the Foundation for Critical Thinking to promote fairminded critical societies through cultivating essential intellectual abilities and virtues across every field of study across world.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers / The Foundation for Critical Thinking

Pages: 52 • Trim: 5¼ x 8

978-0-944583-55-5 • Paperback • January 2014 • $26.00 • (£19.99)

978-1-5381-3385-9 • eBook • June 2019 • $24.50 • (£16.99)

Series: Thinker's Guide Library

Subjects: Education / Decision-Making & Problem Solving, Philosophy / Logic

How to Improve Student Learning

30 Practical Ideas Based on Critical Thinking Concepts and Principles

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In How to Improve Student Learning, critical thinking pioneer Richard Paul and educational psychologist Linda Elder distill decades of teaching experience into thirty methods to increase student comprehension and engagement in any area of study. Teachers and faculty at all levels will find these strategies easy to integrate into their teaching and learning process, and, when integrated, will see students begin to take ownership of their learning.

This guide builds on The Thinker's Guide to Active and Cooperative Learning and cultivates student development as encouraged in the Thinker's Guide for Students on How to Study and Learn a Discipline. As part of the Thinker’s Guide Library, this book advances the mission of the Foundation for Critical Thinking to promote fairminded critical societies through cultivating essential intellectual abilities and virtues across every field of study across world.

Details

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers / The Foundation for Critical Thinking

Pages: 52 • Trim: 5¼ x 8

978-0-944583-55-5 • Paperback • January 2014 • $26.00 • (£19.99)

978-1-5381-3385-9 • eBook • June 2019 • $24.50 • (£16.99)

Series: Thinker's Guide Library

Subjects: Education / Decision-Making & Problem Solving, Philosophy / Logic

Author

Dr. Richard Paul was a leading proponent of critical thinking and, through his work and legacy, remains a distinguished thinker in the field. He founded the Center for Critical Thinking at Sonoma State University in 1980, followed by the Foundation for Critical Thinking. He developed concepts, principles, and theory essential to a robust and fairminded conception of critical thinking. Paul authored or coauthored more than two hundred articles and seven books on the critical thinking. He presented workshops to hundreds of thousands of educators over his 35-year career as a leader in the critical thinking movement.

Dr. Linda Elder is an educational psychologist and internationally recognized authority on critical thinking who has taught both psychology and critical thinking at the college level. She has been president of the Foundation for Critical Thinking and the executive director of the Center for Critical Thinking for 25 years. She has a special interest in the relation of thought and emotion, as well as the cognitive and affective and has developed an original theory of the stages of critical thinking development. Elder has coauthored four books on critical thinking, as well as all 23 titles found in the Thinker's Guide Library.