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Submissions from 1995
Facilitating Creativity in Corporate Culture, James A. Figler
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
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
Critical Thinking in Elementary Science Instruction Using Portfolios and Cooperative Learning, Lisa A. Hayes
Children's Safety Zone and Gateways to Life-Long Learing, Anne J. McDonough
Coaching for Thinking and Life Skills, Kevin O'Brien
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
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
Teaching Foreign Languages in Context: Intermediate Italian and Critical Thinking, Chiara Frenquellucci
The Foundations of Morality, Maryann Gilbert-Lovell
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
Accessing the Creative Process, Jeanne Bolt
Building a Home for Thinking Transfer, Margaret M. Burke
Metacognition in the Elementary Classroom: An Exploration, Terri Anne Caffelle
Critical Thinking Skills in a Meteorology Curriculum, Bernie Cotter
"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
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
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
Teacher as Researcher: A Two-Tiered Model, Barbara B. Nelson
Restructuring for Mathematical Power: Techniques for Teaching Thinking in Algebra, Barbara D. Nelson
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
Using Stress Management to Promote Critical Thinking, Robert L. Schoenberg
Thinking about Grammar in the Middle School: A Study and Recommendations, Jennifer Ault Simmons
Conceptual Understanding of Quadratic Expressions, Julia Swan
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
Changing Mathematics Learning through Changing Teachers' Thinking, Pamela J. Cooke
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
Personality and Problem Solving: An Exploration Using a Computerized, Ill-Defined Problem, Audrey A. Friedman
The Reference Connection: Teaching Thinking Skills within the Library Reference Interview, Cynthia K. Fusco
Family Resemblance: A Study of Linguistic Conformity within Family Systems, Rebecca L. Garnett
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
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
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
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
Critical Thinking through Literature: A Dialogue Teaching Model, William H. Hayes
The Thinking Business, Pamela Imperato
Cooperative Learning on Mathematical Problem Solving: Reflections by a Traditional Teacher and Her Students, Diana Metsisto
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
Philosophical Spacing (PS): It's Function and Composition in the Philosophical Dialectics of Matthew Lipman's Philosophical Novels for Children, Lillian Greeley
Introducing Problem Solving through Literature at the Elementary Level, Margaret S. Harbert
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
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
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
Critical and Creative Thinking: A Literature Approach, Phyllis Cooper
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
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
Promotion of Critical and Creative Thinking Skills through the Teaching of Poetry, Maura H. Albert
An Approach to Teaching for Critical Thinking in a Community College Health Science Curriculum, Donis Tatro Lewis
In Search of an Operational Definition of Social Creativity, Constance J. O'Brien
Submissions from 1984
Alternative Concepts of Geology and Time in Secondary Science Education, Ralph K. Calitri