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Concurrent Sessions 4 - (Conference Attendance Credit: #1 hr)

Workshop Leaders: Robert Hughes Jr., Jennifer Hardesty, Brian Ogolsky, Aaron Ebata, TeKisha Rice, Brianna Anderson

Summary
There is widespread agreement that critical thinking and scientific reasoning are foundational skills for students in behavioral and social sciences. Nevertheless, there is little literature on how these skills can be applied specifically to family science. This interactive workshop is designed to review instructional strategies for enhancing critical thinking and scientific reasoning in undergraduate and graduate students, and engage workshop participants in creating more extensive descriptions of how to foster and assess these skills. In this workshop, facilitators will describe instructional methods utilized in introductory, substantive, applied, and advanced family science courses. Participants will be guided in a process of articulating their own ideas for teaching these skills. The goal is to provide a more comprehensive set of strategies for all participants.

Objectives
-- To increase family science students and new professionals' knowledge about teaching critical thinking and scientific reasoning.
-- To identify teaching strategies with family science examples from participants in the workshop.
-- To develop a more extensive description of instructional methods for fostering critical thinking and scientific reasoning in family science courses.

Subject Codes: education
Population Codes: undergraduate students, graduate students, Family Scientists
Method and Approach Codes: pedagogy