Critical Thinking Research

Research and Publications

BOOKS BY M NEIL BROWNE:

  • Critical Thinking (Chinese edition of Asking the Right Questions), People’s Press, 1993.

  • Striving for Excellence in College, Prentice Hall, 2000, 2nd edition.

  • I Found It on the Internet: Critical Thinking and Your Computer, Prentice-Hall, 2003 (a series in 11 volumes), 2nd edition.

    • Evaluating Internet Resources in Anthropology.

    • Evaluating Internet Resources in Art.

    • Evaluating Internet Resources in English.

    • Evaluating Internet Resources in History.

    • Evaluating Internet Resources in Music.

    • Evaluating Internet Resources in Philosophy.

    • Evaluating Internet Resources in Political Science.

    • Evaluating Internet Resources in Philosophy.

    • Evaluating Internet Resources in Religion.

    • Evaluating Internet Resources in Sociology.

  • Asking the Right Questions about the Legal Environment of Business, Prentice Hall, 2003.

  • Critical Thinking Across the Disciplines, Prentice Hall, 2009.

  • Asking the Right Questions with Readings: A Guide to Critical Thinking, Prentice Hall, 2011.

  • The Legal Environment of Business: A Critical Thinking Approach, Prentice Hall, 2014, 8th edition.

ARTICLES BY M NEIL BROWNE:

  • “Coping with Future Shock Two Styles of Thinking,” Contemporary Education (Summer, 1978).

  • “Value Conflicts and Moral Education among College Freshmen,” Liberal Education (March, 1978).

  • “Measuring Critical Thinking Skills in College,” Educational Forum (January, 1978).

  • “Improving Student Evaluation of Faculty Performance: Related Significance of Critical Thinking and Trained Raters,” Peabody Journal of Education (July, 1978).

  • “A Comparison of Freshman and Seniors on General and Specific Essay Tests of Critical Thinking,” Research in Higher Education (Summer, 1982).

  • “The Design and Selection of Textbooks That Stimulate Critical Thinking,” Journal of the Association for General and Liberal Studies (September, 1985).

  • “How College Seniors Operationalize Critical Thinking Behavior,” College Student Journal (Winter, 1986).

  • “Critical Thinking from Buzz Word to Action,” Intellectual Skills Development Bulletin (November, 1986).

  • “Critical Thinking in the Sociology Classroom: Facilitating Movement from Vague Objective to Explicit Achievement,” Teaching Sociology (October, 1987).

  • “Preconditions for Encouraging Critical Thinking on the Campus,” International Journal of Social Education (Winter, 1987).

  • “Assignments That Encourage Critical Thinking,” Journal of Professional Studies (Winter, 1987).

  • “The Potential Unity of Critical Thinking and Values Analysis,” The Greening of the Future, Miami University (1987).

  • “Do College Students Know How To Think Critically When They Graduate?” Intellectual Skills Development Bulletin (Fall, 1988).

  • “The Tension Between Legal Reasoning and Critical Thinking,” Critical Thinking: Language and Inquiry Across The Disciplines, Montclair State University Press (1989).

  • “The Challenge of Gender-based and Learning Styles Research for Critical Thinking,” To Improve the Academy, New Forms Press (1989).

  • “Critical Thinking: A Study’s Outcome,” Journal of Professional Studies (Spring, 1989).

  • “Necessary Tension in Assignments that Stimulate Critical Thinking,” Connexions (Spring, 1989).

  • “The Need for Critical Thinking Courses,” Intellectual Skills Development Bulletin (Spring, 1989).

  • “The Hasty Embrace of Critical Thinking by Business Law Educators,” Journal of Legal Studies Education (Fall, 1991).

  • “Students as Consumers --A Tainted Metaphor, Overcoming Student Resistance: Classroom Controversies as an Antidote for the Sponge Model of Learning,” College Student Journal (September, 1992). Also published in Korean Journal of Critical Thinking and College Student Journal (September, 1990).

  • “Browne and Keeley’s Form of Critical Thinking,” 71-89 in Conversations with Critical Thinkers, Whitman Institute (1993).

  • “Overcoming Student Resistance to Critical Thinking,” Korean Journal of Thinking and Problem Solving (1993).

  • “Classrooms where Critical Thinking Is Emphasized,” Brazilian Journal of Education (2006).

  • “Concealment of Information in Consumer Transactions in the U.S., Sweden, and China: A Window to the Relationship between Individualism and Regulation,” Loyola Consumer Law Review (Summer, 2008).

  • “Are Introductory Courses a Proper Venue for Deep Thought about the Discipline?” College Student Journal (Fall, 2008).

  • “Unconscionability and the Contingent Assumptions of Contract Theory,” Michigan State Law Review (Spring, 2013).

ARTICLES BY NANCY KUBASEK:

  • “A Critical Thinking Approach to Teaching Environmental Law” Journal of Legal Studies Education (1998).

  • “Integrating Critical Thinking Into the Legal Environment of Business Classroom,” 13 Journal of Legal Studies Education (1996). *[received Hober Award for the Outstanding Article of the Year in the Journal of Legal Studies Education].

  • “Teaching Critical Thinking Skills in the Law Classroom,” Korean Journal of Thinking Skills (1996)

  • “Infusing Critical Thinking Into the Syllabus” Intellectual Skills Development Journal 38 (1991).

  • “Testing Critical Thinking Skills and Content in the Legal Environment of Business Class,” Journal of Legal Studies Education (Fall 1991).

  • “The Research paper: A Tool for Developing Critical Thinking Skills in the Legal Environment of Business Classroom, 9 Journal of Legal Studies Education 317 (1991).

  • “The Selection and Preparation of Textbooks and Curriculum Materials Which Facilitate the Development of Critical Thinking Skills,” 3 Intellectual Skills Development Journal 26 (1987).