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Submissions from 1995

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Facilitating Creativity in Corporate Culture, James A. Figler

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A Case for Dialogue in Public Education: Individual and Collective Learning through the Dialogue Process, Ellen Schoenfeld-Beeks

A Teachers' Guide to Improving Students' Creative Thinking in Mathematics, Susan A. R. Young

Enhancing Thinking Ability in Beginning Nursing Students, Cynthia Zafft

Submissions from 1994

Incorporating Inventive Thinking in the Middle School Life Science Curriculum, Deborah Allen

Critical Thinking Considerations for an Elementary Science Magnet School, Linda Cromwell-Clark

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Using Science Misconceptions for Developing Critical Thinking in Learners and Teachers, Neuza M. DeFigueredo

Philosophical Issues in the Practice and Pedagogy of Film, Roger duMars

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Critical Thinking in Elementary Science Instruction Using Portfolios and Cooperative Learning, Lisa A. Hayes

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Children's Safety Zone and Gateways to Life-Long Learing, Anne J. McDonough

Coaching for Thinking and Life Skills, Kevin O'Brien

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Teaching Thinking Skills in the Content Area: A Workshop for Secondary School Teachers, Evelyn Ryan

Submissions from 1993

Developing Student Participatory Skills in an Urban Middle School, Patricia Artis

A Thinking Skills Approach to the Humanities, Elizabeth Buckley

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Student Held Misconceptions Regarding Area and Perimeter of Rectangles, Susan M. Carle

Promoting Geometric Thinking in Grade Four, Kristen Eastman

Unexamined Consequences: Ideology, Critical Thinking, and the Reagan Revolution, Niles Flanders

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Teaching Foreign Languages in Context: Intermediate Italian and Critical Thinking, Chiara Frenquellucci

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The Foundations of Morality, Maryann Gilbert-Lovell

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Analysis of McCarthy Learning Styles and Integration of Critical and Creative Thinking, Lucille Nancy Maugeri McKain

Exploring Graphokinesics Critically and Creatively, Eileen Page

Holistic Perception in Literature, Joseph Ruffino

Young Adults' Moral Eduation: A Critical Reflective Thinking Approach, Irvent Torres

From Failure-Orientation to Mastery-Orientation: A Workshop for Women, Rachael Yoffee

Submissions from 1992

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Accessing the Creative Process, Jeanne Bolt

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Building a Home for Thinking Transfer, Margaret M. Burke

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Metacognition in the Elementary Classroom: An Exploration, Terri Anne Caffelle

Critical Thinking Skills in a Meteorology Curriculum, Bernie Cotter

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"Who is a Scientist?": Effects of an Intervention to Change Students' Ideas about Science and Scientists, Lauren A. Foley

Critical Thinking and the Critical Viewing of Art, Lori Kent

A Critical Thinking Unit on Electricity and Magetism to Encourage Females and Minorities, Katherine Kittredge

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Critical Thinking and Client Centered Nursing Care, Bernadette Q. LaVoie

Creative Problem Solving with Tangrams, Karen Litzinger

Integrating Thinking, Whole Language and Drama, Jane Lueders Sayan

Empathic Role Taking in Social Studies: A Fifth Grade Curriculum Based on Critical and Creative Thinking, Patricia Manley

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Creative Problem Solving: Nine Model Lessons on the Rainforest, Christine Morton

Metacognitive Strategies for Vocabulary and Concept Learning: A Framework Using Content Area Textbooks, Marlene Murray

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Teacher as Researcher: A Two-Tiered Model, Barbara B. Nelson

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Restructuring for Mathematical Power: Techniques for Teaching Thinking in Algebra, Barbara D. Nelson

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A Critical and Creative Approach to Enhancing Student Writing, William E. Porter

Restructuring MBA Programs for Leadership Development: Critical and Creative Thinking as a Strategic Framework, Jane Robbins

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Using Stress Management to Promote Critical Thinking, Robert L. Schoenberg

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Thinking about Grammar in the Middle School: A Study and Recommendations, Jennifer Ault Simmons

Conceptual Understanding of Quadratic Expressions, Julia Swan

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Critical and Creative Thinking and Humor, Regina Temple

Interpersonal Communication and Critical Thinking: Exploring Power and Solidarity in a Computer-Mediated Conversation, Frederic Torzs

Looking for the Question: A Critical Thinking Goal for a Second Grade Teacher, Elizabeth Van Atten

Submissions from 1991

An Exploration of Personal Process as Manifested in Painting, Marlene Bell

The Critical Thinking Salesperson, James Bousquet

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Changing Mathematics Learning through Changing Teachers' Thinking, Pamela J. Cooke

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Big Ideas for Little People: Critical Thinking and Mathematical Concept Exploration in Elementary School, Patricia Cordeiro

The Relationship of Empathy to Effective Speaking: Critical and Creative Thinking in the Speech Process, Carol Diedrichsen

A Storyteller Versus Three Theorists: One Writer's Creative Process and Current Creativity Theory, Susan Els

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Personality and Problem Solving: An Exploration Using a Computerized, Ill-Defined Problem, Audrey A. Friedman

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The Reference Connection: Teaching Thinking Skills within the Library Reference Interview, Cynthia K. Fusco

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Family Resemblance: A Study of Linguistic Conformity within Family Systems, Rebecca L. Garnett

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Explicit Integration of Critical Thinking into Content Area Instruction, Bernice Gordon

Writing Essays on Advertisements to Teach Critical and Creative Thinking, John King

Empowerment through Creativity: A Workshop for Women, Sabine Koopmann

Critical Thinking and Problem Solving in Mathematics, Caroline LaCroix

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Helping Adolescents to Address the Moral Dimensions of Sexuality, MaryAnne Miller

The Development of Self in Women: Healing Workshops for Survivors of Sexual Abuse, Denise Sheppard

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Adolescents and AIDS: Dealing with Misconceptions, Sharon Sprong

A Critical Evaluation of the Thinkabout Instructional Television Curriculum, David Tick

Critical and Creative Thinking for Corporate Managers, Benjamin Wade

Submissions from 1990

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Critical Thinking in Reading: A Whole Language Approach, Deborah Anne Adkins

Critical Thinking in Social Studies: A Model of Infused Lessons for the Intermediate Grades, Annmarie T. Adreani

Critical and Creative Thinking for Nutritionists: A Training Program, Joseph Carlin

Empathy, Critical Thinking, and Creativity: Theories, Training, and Interrelationships, Lisa Collier

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Critical Thinking through Literature: A Dialogue Teaching Model, William H. Hayes

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The Thinking Business, Pamela Imperato

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Cooperative Learning on Mathematical Problem Solving: Reflections by a Traditional Teacher and Her Students, Diana Metsisto

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Merging Instruction in Thinking and Writing, Victoria L. Morse

Critical and Creative Thinking in the Newsroom: A High School Curriculum Reinforcing Reading and Writing in a Non-Traditional Learning Environment, Melanie Patterson

Critical Thinking and Middle School Mathematics, Clare Sullivan

Teaching American History and Thinking Skills: The Nineteen Twenties in America and Lessons in Critical and Creative Thinking and Philosophical Inquiry, Michael Sullivan

A Thinking Skills Approach to Affirmation and Conflict Resolution, Thomas Vendetts

Submissions from 1989

Process Writing: A Comprehensive Methodology for Teaching Thinking and Learning Science, Judith Donovan

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Philosophical Spacing (PS): It's Function and Composition in the Philosophical Dialectics of Matthew Lipman's Philosophical Novels for Children, Lillian Greeley

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Introducing Problem Solving through Literature at the Elementary Level, Margaret S. Harbert

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Teaching Critical and Creative Thinking Skills as Part of the Technical Communications Curriculum, Anne Harrington

Applying Cognitive Strategies to Critical Barriers in Learning a Science Concept: Groundwater Conceptual Change, Barbara Waters

Submissions from 1988

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Literacy as a Source for Critical Consciousness Thought, Language, and Concept of Self, Victoria Byerly

Challenging Children to Think: Using Reading to Teach Critical and Creative Thinking, Kay Dundas

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Writing toward Understanding, Dianne Gregory

Inventure, William Oakes

Provincetown Framework for Infused Thinking, Jane Rowe

Critical and Creative Thinking in School Age Child Care Projects and Play, Joel Rubin

Submissions from 1987

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Critical and Creative Thinking: A Literature Approach, Phyllis Cooper

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Children's Aesthetic Perception: A Developmental Study of Judgements and Attitudes Concerning the Drawings and Paintings of Children, Judith Helmund

Critical Thinking Skills and Motivation: A Model for Literature, Robert A. Tocci

Submissions from 1986

Hilda Taba's Inductive Teaching Model: A Pioneering Effort in Teaching for Thinking, Michelle Commeyras

A Critical and Creative Thinking Curriculum Guide, Mary Cunningham

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School/Community Cooperation: Action-Involved Learning, Joyce Elaine Pearson

Sex Role Stereotypes: Children’s Perceptions and Preferences in the Realms of Play and Work, Susan L. Peluso

Story Comprehension of the First Grader, Marjorie Rosengard

Submissions from 1985

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Promotion of Critical and Creative Thinking Skills through the Teaching of Poetry, Maura H. Albert

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An Approach to Teaching for Critical Thinking in a Community College Health Science Curriculum, Donis Tatro Lewis

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In Search of an Operational Definition of Social Creativity, Constance J. O'Brien

Submissions from 1984

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Alternative Concepts of Geology and Time in Secondary Science Education, Ralph K. Calitri