Critical Thinking Links from Text

Text:

http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0072473762/information_center_view0/

Learning Style Inventories

http://www2.ncsu.edu/unity/lockers/users/f/felder/public/ILSdir/ilsweb.html

Fill out this questionnaire, submit responses and receive feedback. This site can be

used to help confirm your learning style preference.

http://www.chelt.ac.uk/gdn/discuss/kolb1.htm

Kolb's Learning Style Inventory (for faculty)

http://www.ntlf.com/html/pi/9511/article1.htm

McKeachie's article on learning styles (for faculty)

http://www.ncsu.edu/felder-public/Papers/LS-Prism.htm

Matters of Learning Styles (for Faculty)

http://www.ncsu.edu/felder-public/Papers/Secondtier.html

Learning Styles in Science

http://cyg.net/~jblackmo/diglib/styl-a.html

Learning Styles and Pedagogy (for faculty)

Concentration

http://www.loyola.edu/studycenter/studyskills.html

Provides general study skills information, including concentration and learning styles.

http://www.kcmetro.cc.mo.us/longview/humanities/english/memcon.htm

Provides quick information on memory and concentration strategies.

Good for review purposes.

http://www.k-state.edu/counseling/concentr.html

Offers explanation and practice of concentration strategies

including the spider technique.

http://adulted.about.com/library/weekly/aa091601a.htm

Study Time! How to Make the Most of It

http://www.ipfw.edu/casa/txtr.html

Pre-Reading Tips

Test Taking Strategies

www.csbsju.edu/academicadvising/help/testskil.html

Test Taking Skills -- Essay Questions

http://www.glencoe.com/ps/peak/studyskills/pitfalls/pitfalls.html

Study and Test Taking Skills for Peak Performance

http://www.cs.gasou.edu/student/test10.html

The Ten Commandments for Taking a Test

http://www.bucks.edu/~specpop/tests.htm

The Basics of Effective Test Taking

Vocabulary Enhancement

http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar/vocabulary.htm

Building a Better Vocabulary

http://www.smsu.edu/studyskills/new/vocabulary.html

Tips for a Greater Vocabulary

Memory

http://www.ucc.vt.edu/stdysk/stdyhlp.html

Strategies for Improving Concentration and Memory

http://www.mtsu.edu/~studskl/mem.html

Memory Principles

http://www.csbsju.edu/academicadvising/help/remread.html

Remembering What You Read

Mnemonics

http://www.wm.edu/OSA/dostud/moresski/memory.htm

Improving Your Memory Skills

Time Management Tips

http://www.bucks.edu/~specpop/time-manage.htm

Managing Your Reading Time

http://www.rio.maricopa.edu/distance_learning/tutorials/study/time.shtml

http://www.d.umn.edu/student/loon/acad/strat/time_manage.html

Time Management Tips

http://www.usu.edu/arc/idea_sheets/time.htm

Utah State Time Management System

http://www.csulb.edu/~tstevens/patsm96.htm

Self-Management

http://www.mheso.state.mn.us/mPg.cfm?pageID=688

Managing your Time

Speed Reading

http://www.brainquicken.com/px_project_article.asp

Brain Quicken - Speed Reading Technique

Will it work for you?

http://www.ucc.vt.edu/stdysk/suggest.html

Suggestions for Improving Reading Speed

http://www.utexas.edu/student/utlc/handouts/512.html

Brief Suggestions for Increasing Reading Speed

http://www.readingsoft.com/quiz.html

Speed Reading Quizzes

Main Ideas

http://gwired.gwu.edu/counsel/counsel.php?id=2140

Top Ten Tips for selecting Main Ideas

http://www.ccis.edu/departments/cae/studyskills/mainidea.html

Reading for the Main Ideas

http://users.dhp.com/~laflemm/reso/mainIdea.htm

Main Idea Exercises

http://vclass.mtsac.edu:920/readroom/Mainidea.htm

Main Idea Exercises

http://english.glendale.cc.ca.us/topic.html

Finding Main Ideas in Paragraphs

Finding Details

http://vclass.mtsac.edu/amla-51/Supporting%20Details/details.htm

Supporting Details

Textbook Reading Systems

http://www.ucc.vt.edu/stdysk/sq3r.html

SQ3R -- A Reading System

http://www.arc.sbc.edu/sq3r.html

Reading Methods

http://www.mindtools.com/sq3r.html

Mind Tools -- Increasing Your Retention of Written Information

Textbook Marking

http://www.ucc.vt.edu/stdysk/stdyhlp.html

Study Skills Self-Help -- Textbook Marking

http://www.psywww.com/mtsite/mindmaps.html

Improving Notetaking with Concept Maps (also good for Chapter 11)

http://www.hlnd.wnyric.org/diffinstruction/cornell%20note%20taking.htm

Cornell Notetaking Method

Using Visuals

http://www.mindtools.com/mindmaps.html

Mind Tools

http://www.brazosport.cc.tx.us/~lac/mindmap.htm

Mind Mapping

http://www.ourtimelines.com/

Create Your Own Family Time Line

http://www.lionden.com/using_outlines.htm

Using Outlines

Arguments

http://www.mccallie.org/wrt_ctr/What%20Should%20Students%20Know%20to%20Succeed%20in%20College.doc

%20to%20Succeed%20in%20College.doc

What Should Students Know to Succeed in College

http://www.intrepidsoftware.com/fallacy/

Logical Fallacies

http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/

Fallacies

http://www.sjsu.edu/depts/itl/graphics/main.html

Mission Critical -- a full-scale tutorial for critical thinking

Advanced Critical Reading

http://www.le.ac.uk/castle/resources/mcqman/mcqappc.html

Helpful review and practice of Bloom's Taxonomy.

http://www.litstudies.com/BloomTaxonomy.htm

More on Bloom's Taxonomy

Evaluating Websites

http://www.google.com/help/features.html

Tips on Mastering a Google Search

http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/college/help/critical/index.htm

Evaluating Sites

http://www.library.cornell.edu/okuref/research/skill26.htm

Critically Analyzing Information Sources