Moving beyond the surface means critically evaluating course material (textbooks, lectures, homework), and assessing the meaning and importance of the topics covered. What does it mean to engage the material?

Follow the links for useful resources.

Thinking Critically About World Wide Web Resources   A full text article that presents points to be considered about the value and reliability of Web sources. Provides a link to another full text article "Thinking Critically about Discipline-Based World Wide Web Resources."

Critical Thinking This site assembled by the Institute for Teaching and Learning at San Jose State University addresses an array of critical
thinking topics, including how to think critically.

Mission: Critical  The site is intended primarily to provide students with a solid foundation -- and a lot of practice -- in basic principles of informal logic, so that they may build more advanced thinking skills on this foundation in their courses.

Active Learning  An engaging site dedicated to active learning and student involvement in the  process of acquiring and applying information. Topics addressed include getting involved in your education, finding interest in classes, the importance of class attendance, and how to be a leader, and much more.

ACT Research Home Page  ACT-R is a cognitive modeling architecture: a software environment for simulating and understanding human cognition. Researchers working on ACT-R strive to understand how people organize knowledge and produce intelligent behavior. As the research continues, ACT-Revolves ever closer into a system which can perform.

Learning to Learn: Resources: Metacognition Links  An extensive list of links on learning to learn and the relationship to metacognition.

Metacognition  A brief summary of the three basic components of metacognition. A good place to start when exploring this important learning concept.

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