Faculty driven assessment of critical thinking: National dissemination of the CAT instrument

Technological Developments in Networking, Education and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 55-58

  Stein, Barry ^a   Haynes, Ada ^a   Redding, Michael ^a   Harris, Kevin ^a   Tylka, Mark ^a   Lisic, Elizabeth ^a  

^a TENNESSEE TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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CRITICAL THINKING;

EID: 84877676719     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-9151-2_10     Document Type: Conference Paper

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