New
March 2008 $49.95
- Paperbound
Critical
Thinking and Clinical Reasoning in the Health Sciences:
An International
Multidisciplinary Teaching Anthology
by
Noreen C. Facione and Peter A. Facione (Eds.)
What
can I do in my teaching to improve students’ critical thinking
and clinical judgment skills?
Finally
a new teaching anthology that offers workable answers!
Health
science educators share successful teaching strategies for training
critical thinking and clinical reasoning in the classroom and in the
clinic. All the authors are published researchers who have achieved
teaching excellence in the area of clinical reasoning. They represent
all professional levels and academic ranks, and work in pre-service
and in-service clinical and academic settings on four continents.
Whether their teaching is on-line or face-to-face, they demonstrate
the effectiveness of their approaches for building critical thinking
skills and habits of mind in the context of authentic clinical problems.
This
teaching anthology offers thoughtful examples that will guide even
the experienced educator to
more effectively train clinical reasoning skills using problem-based
learning, clinical cases, think-aloud, reflective role-play, team
problem-solving, reflective journaling and many other approaches to
engage students in the critical thinking skills of interpretation,
analysis, inference, evaluation,
explanation, and meta-cognition.
These
active learning pedagogies foster and sustain positive critical thinking
habits of mind such as truth-seeking, inquisitiveness, open-mindedness,
systematicity, maturity of judgment, and confidence in reasoning.
The positive effects of these approaches register both as observable
cognitive behaviors in the course of clinical decision making and
as significant improvements in students’ reasoning test scores.
Published
by The California Academic Press LLC
©2008 Peter A and Noreen C Facione
ISBN
(13 digit) 978-1891557-60-6
ISBN
(10 digit) 1-891557-60-2
September 2007 $27.95
Paperbound
Thinking
and Reasoning in Human
Decision Making:
The Method
of Argument and Heuristic Analysis
by
Peter A. Facione and Noreen C. Facione
If
your work does not require a deep understanding of how human beings
make decisions, and how those decisions can be predicted and influenced,
then this book is not for you.
From
theory to illustrative case studies, this groundbreaking volume describes
a new methodology for explaining and predicting human decision making.
The method of argument and heuristic analysis, based on the latest
scientific findings from studies of human reasoning, combines both
quantitative and qualitative research designs. Use of this method
takes the study of human reasoning to a deep and authentic level.
The decision mapping techniques presented in this volume enable one
to display visually the flow of a reasoning process and to examine
the influence of the reasons and heuristics which shape human decision-making.
This
new volume emerges from decades of research into human decision making.
It offers a scientifically grounded and very widely applicable methodology
for explaining and predicting human decisions. The method accounts
for the reasons actually used by decision makers to make naturalistic
decisions. This approach provides objective methods for evaluating
the logical strength and appropriate reliance on thinking heuristics.
The focus is on high risk, time limited judgments made under conditions
of uncertainty. Using this new approach one can explain unwarranted
confidence in poor reasoning and persistence in defending poor judgments
when there is ample evidence to the contrary.
Using
this approach, professionals and scholars can map human decisions
in leadership, business, military, health care, and human interpersonal
situations. And they can craft ways of predicting and addressing errors
through interventions designed to respect and build upon those elements
in human thinking and reasoning which can become the basis for better
judgments in all those contexts.
Published by The California Academic Press LLC
©2007 Peter A and Noreen C Facione
ISBN
(13 digit) 978-1891557-58-3
ISBN (10 digit) 1-891557-58-0
Ethics and Society $49.00
Comb-Bound $20.00
per copy from PDF
by Peter A. Facione,
Donald Scherer, and Thomas Attig
Download
Sample "Chapter Two: Self-interest, Personal Character, and
The Good Life," 32 pages
If
the police can lie when they interrogate suspects, why is it wrong
for me to lie if I have a good enough reason too? If I oppose scientific
experimentation on animals and genetics research, am I ethically obligated
to refuse medical advances derived that research even if it would
save my life? Should parents have the right to decide the sex of their
children, or determine whether they will be vaccinated, or go to school?
Would I be happier if I learned to curb my desire for power, wealth
or popularity? In today's world, does it make sense to act virtuously
and with integrity; or is it every one for themselves, and hurt the
other guy before he hurts you? Should the government ration electricity
and other forms of energy, and if so, who has priority and why? Do
I as a person, or as a member of society, owe reparations to the descendants
of former slaves? Should I be able to build any kind of home I wish
on property I own, or do anything I wish in the privacy of by apartment,
as long as it does not hurt anyone else? Is it really wrong to buy
clothing made by children working fifteen hours a day in the sweatshops
of the world's poorest countries? Where does my right to privacy end
and your right to safety and the common good begin?
Ethics
and Society helps you come to grips with the real ethical questions
of everyday living. You will learn how to make ethical decisions that
are both principled and practical. This book sharpens your intellectual
skills and equips you with the fundamental knowledge for dealing with
normative questions. Case studies, examples, and rich sets of exercises
and discussion questions make the ethical theories and concepts practical.
Our assumption is that most readers are interested primarily in acquiring
a practical, not just a theoretical, knowledge of ethics that is relevant
for today’s world. Our chief goal in this book is simply making
ethical ideas accessible to college level readers and equipping them
with the intellectual tools to deal rationally with ethical issues
and ideas in the personal and social realm.
The
book's middle chapters focus on ethical decision-making values: social
utility and the common good, self-interest, rights and duties, freedom
and autonomy, justice and equality, community quality and social stability,
the rule of law and private morality. Each chapter is a self-contained
presentation of the relevant normative ideas, concepts, and distinctions.
These chapters trace the implications of those ideas using illustrative
case studies and examples. Objections and contrary views are considered
along with some of the possible replies. The chapters which focus
on key values are flanked at the start and the end with chapters serving
different roles. These two chapters provide a framework for understanding
what ethics is all about and for dealing rationally with ethical concerns.
Chapter One, tells how to justify normative claims; the final chapter
concentrates on how to understand and how to resolve divergent and
conflicting values.
There are many specially designed learning features loaded into this
outstanding book. For example, chapters are divided into lesson-sized
modules or sections, usually three to a chapter, each of which starts
off by identifying the most important things you should be able to
do after having read that section. Use these lists of learning goals
to focus your efforts. Next comes a case study—a fictional story
that illustrates the chief ideas and techniques to be developed in
that section. The explanatory text draws out theoretical points and
describes philosophical techniques both abstractly and by appeal to
the case study and other examples. With each section we offer a set
of exercises and discussion questions which give you the opportunity
to apply the ideas and the tools you are learning. We are proud of
these exercises and questions and we know how well they can reinforce
your understanding of what you have read in the section. The questions
represent real issues that have been drawn from our own classroom
and professional lives. We give answers to selected exercises along
with references back to specific paragraphs in the section to help
you find the relevant material.
Published
by The California Academic Press, Millbrae, CA.
©(2001) Peter
A. Facione, Donald Scherer, Thomas Attig. ISBN
1-891557-51-3
Logic and Logical Thinking $35.00
Paperbound from Ox Bow Press
by Peter A. Facione
Ph.D. and Donald Scherer Ph.D.
Maybe
one of the best logic textbooks ever published, every chapter in this
book has been refined, reworked, and field-tested in the classroom
with thousands of college students. The book includes a plethora of
examples, exercises, and summative self-quizzes Answers ready to hand
refer the learner to the proper section of the chapter for immediate
understanding. The book includes all the topic areas considered to
be central to a first course in logic including: propositional logic,
truth-tables, syllogisms, Venn Diagrams, predicate logic, translation
between English and symbolic logic, natural deduction proof systems,
and a rich section on formal and informal fallacies. The book also
includes chapters on inductive reasoning and on the nature and scope
of contemporary approaches to logic as the study of the logical correctness
of arguments.
First
published by McGraw Hill, this book is now available from Ox Bow Press.
This book retails new at about 1/3 of the price of other textbooks
covering the same material. Its modular approach permits the maximum
flexibility for instructors to chart their own path through the material
for their students. For example the study of first order predicate
logic can begin fresh with the treatment of Syllogisms, or with Venn
Diagrams, or with Sentential Logic. No matter which approach is taken,
all of the needed information is included in each of those potential
first modules so that, should the other two paths not be included,
the students will have received all that they needed to proceed further
with their study of first order predicate logic. Or, should one or
both of those other modules also be used, the fundamentals of this
level of logic will have been addressed from more than one perspective
leading to reinforced and deeper learning. The same approach is taken
in the modules on the informal and formal fallacies, and in the modules
on proof strategies for propositional logic. Multiple avenues leading
to the same result provide the learner with an optimal means of truly
comprehending not only how logic works but why it works.
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CT
Assessment in Nursing Education Programs: An Aggregate Data Analysis
by
Noreen C. Facione Ph.D., FAAN.
$49.50
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Table of Contents & Preface - 12 Page PDF
This
report summarizes the analysis of an aggregate data set comprising
145 predominantly undergraduate samples contributed by on site collaborative
investigators at 50 programs of nursing education throughout the United
States (Total N = 7,926 cases). Collaborators are listed in this report,
as are the analyses of each independent sample, for purposes of validation
of the reported findings. The data analyzed were collected from 1992
through 1997. Significant relationships are reported between two measures
of critical thinking (CT), the CCTST, which is a skills measure, and
the CCTDI, which profiles CT dispositions, and a wide variety of academic
achievement indicators (e.g. grade point average, standardized test
scores), student descriptors (e.g. age, sex, RN-status, NCLEX passage),
and program descriptors (e.g. student to faculty ratio, location of
program, faculty focus on CT in planning and curriculum development).
Modest cross sectional increases and longitudinal gains are demonstrated
in CT skills and habits of mind. Several of these relationships are
also explored in the limited graduate level sample available. Initial
percentile norms for the CCTST are calculated for nursing students
by undergraduate class level. Percentile distributions by class for
the seven scales of the CCTDI are also reported. A relative strength
in students CT skills and dispositions scores were observed in samples
collected in nursing programs where faculty reported being engaged
in discussions about CT and curriculum reform to optimize teaching
for CT. Evidence was observed for a comparable strength in CT skills
in both generic and RN completion students on both entry and exit.
Disposition scores were higher for RN to BSN students than for same
class level generic nursing student on entry. Scores in CT disposition
for exiting RN to BSN students raise concern for whether these students’
CT disposition is being nurtured by current nursing curricula. A similar
concern is raised in relation to female students versus male students
as a result of analyses of observed CCTDI scores by sex at exit. Using
this dataset, the largest aggregation of CT skills and dispositions
test data known to date, the theoretical relationships between the
traditional and the Delphi constructs, in terms of division of CT
skills, are also explored empirically, as was the relationship between
CT skill and the disposition toward CT.
Published
by The California Academic Press, Millbrae, CA.
©(1997)Noreen C. Facione and The California Academic Press ISBN
1-891557-21-1
We
Never Aimed for Blight $14.95
Paperbound
by Don Scherer, Ph.D.
If
we Americans never aimed for blight, why have we so often degraded
our environment, depleted our resources, poisoned our water, and polluted
our air? Greed and negligence, perhaps; and yet the histories Don
Scherer collected tell a different story - a story of results foreseeable
but unforeseen, predictable but unintended. To continue down the historical
path toward our nation's environmental degradation will confound our
hopes and thwart our aspirations. But, this outcome is by no means
inevitable. We Never Aimed for Blight reveals the patterns that lead
to degradation. And, once revealed, these avenues to disaster can
be avoided. Though his historical analyses and case studies, Scherer's
considerable accomplishment is to explain what causes environmental
degradation and, at the same time, to give us the key to prevention
and reversal.
Published
by The California Academic Press in conjunction with Benzonia Press.
© 2002 Donald Scherer, ISBN 1-891557-56-4
Our Greener Ways $
16.95 Paperbound
by Don Scherer, Ph.D.
Environmental
degradation is by no means inevitable. Don Scherer recounts the moving
stories of how strong-willed people have saved their homes, rebuilt
their neighborhoods and protected their communities. Our Greener Ways
inspires with descriptions of corporations acting out of convictions
and finding the incentives that make them good environmental citizens.
A decade of research reveals effective strategies environmentally
concerned people and organizations have used and can continue to use
to overcome fear, misunderstanding, and political opposition. Scherer
illustrates how to make the connections and marshal the community
resources to tackle big issues, transform our cities and create the
far-flung communities to engage the full complexity of contemporary
environmental problems. Robert Hood has created the CD-ROM for Our
Greener Ways. This CD invites participation in a virtual community
of environmental concern, Our Greener Ways provides the substance
of hopes for creating the environments in which we can all be pleased
to dwell. Book preface by Jordon Lindberg.
Published
by The California Academic Press in conjunction with Benzonia Press.
© 2002 Donald Scherer, ISBN 1-891557-55-6
