Encouraging Critical Thinking Using the Case Study Method and Cooperative Learning Techniques.

Grossman, Robert W.

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ERIC Number: EJ505287

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1994

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Encouraging Critical Thinking Using the Case Study Method and Cooperative Learning Techniques.

Grossman, Robert W.

Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, v5 n1 p7-20 1994

This article shows how cooperative learning teams in an introductory college psychology course can be taught to analyze case studies. By using alternative conceptual frameworks to analyze these cases, students are encouraged to think more critically about all the theories presented in the course. (MDM)

Descriptors: Case Method (Teaching Technique), Case Studies, Classroom Techniques, College Instruction, Cooperative Learning, Courses, Critical Thinking, Group Instruction, Higher Education, Introductory Courses, Psychology, Teaching Methods

Publication Type: Guides - Non-Classroom; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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Note: Journal availability: OAST, Miami Univ., Oxford, OH 45056.

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