Radney's Critical Thinkers

Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa’s well-known study, Academically Adrift, shows that the students who gained in critical-thinking skills were those in classes where they were asked to read a lot and write a lot—and in which they believed their professors had high expectations for their work. These intensive reading-and-writing classes are the bread and butter of humanistic scholarship, particularly if we also communicate high expectations.