Brown Bag Lunches at WSU-Pullman
During each semester on the Pullman campus, there
will be several brown bag discussions. All are free and open to
any who wish to attend.
March 24 @ 12.30pm,
CUE 305A
Joe
Pergola, Philosophy
“How to Get Students to Give a H.O.T.
Presentation: Reinforcing Higher-Ordered Thinking through Student Presentations”
After adapting a critical thinking
rubric for student papers, what can one do to reinforce critical thinking beyond
the written word? To further emphasize critical analysis decided to assign
meaningful presentations that built upon and reinforced the writing process.
This added dimension of public accountability vastly improved the papers I
received. Using the critical thinking rubric drastically reduced the usual
problem of hearing one boring drone after another repeat essentially the same
information with little originality. Instead, focusing the students’ attention
on the critical aspect of their paper generated lively and unique discussions of
their ideas. These presentations held my interest, and more importantly, the
interest of the other students. I’ll be talking about the process I went
through in designing this assignment as well as some of the pitfalls I fell into
along the way.
