Research Summaries Database

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Title	Author	Category	Publisher
Common misconceptions of critical thinking 1999	Sharon Bailin, Roland Case, Jerrold R. Coombs and Leroi B. Daniels	Education theory	Journal of Curriculum Studies
Teaching critical thinking August 2015	Dr Natasha Holmes, Professor Carl Wieman and Professor Doug Bonn	Education theory View all	Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA (PNAS)
Arts education in secondary schools: effects and effectiveness 2000	Multiple	Education theory	National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER)
Critical thinking: why is it so hard to teach? June 2007	Professor Daniel Willingham	Learning styles and cognitive development View all	American Educator
A-Z of teaching 2004	Sue Cowley	Education theory	Continuum International Publishing Group
Applying Cognitive Science to Education Thinking and Learning in Scientific and Other Complex Domains 2008	Professor Frederick Reif	Science/(STEM)	MIT Press
Developing thinking skills in the primary classroom 2002	Professor Steve Higgins	Education theory	Occasional Paper: No 2 2002 ISBN 0-9538154-1-2
Thinking, fast and slow 2011	Professor Daniel Kahneman	Education theory	Penguin Books
Why don't students like school?: a cognitive scientist answers questions about how the mind works and what it means for the classroom 2009	Professor Dan Willingham	Education theory	Jossey-Bass
A taxonomy for learning, teaching, and assessing: a revision of Bloom's taxonomy of educational objectives December 2000 (Abridged updated version, 2013)	Professor Lorin W. Anderson, David R. Krathwohl and Peter W. Airasian	Education theory Learning styles and cognitive development Pupil development and support +1 more	Oxford Education Press