Using Bloom's Taxonomy to teach critical thinking skills to business students

College and Undergraduate Libraries

Volumn 15, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 159-172

  Nentl, Nancy ^a   Zietlow, Ruth ^a  

^a METROPOLITAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bloom's Taxonomy; Critical thinking; Herrick; Information literacy; Library research; Secondary research

Indexed keywords

EID: 71049144407     PISSN: 10691316     EISSN: 15452530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10691310802177135     Document Type: Article

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