1Kurfiss (Gainen), J. (1998). Gritical Thinking: Theory, Research, Practice, and Possibilities. ASHE-ERIC Higher Education Report No. 2. Washington DC: ASHE.
2Marshall, R., Tucker, M. (1992). Thinking for a Living: Education and the Wealth of Nations. New York: Basic Books.
3Dewey, J., (1933, originally published in 1910). How We Think: A Restatement of the Relation of Reflective Thinking to the Educational Process. Lexington, MA: Heath Publishing. US Congress, (1994) Goals 2000: National Goals for Education Act. Washington, DC: US Government Printing Office.
4American Philosophical Association. (1990). Critical Thinking: A Statement of Expert Consensus for Purposes of Educational Assessment and Instruction. "The Delphi Report," Committee on Pre-College Philosophy. (ERIC Doe. No. ED 315 423) .
5Among these are the widely used instruments : The California Critical Thinking Skills Test, The Test of Everyday Reasoning, The California Critical Thinking Disposition Inventory, the California Measure of Mental Motivation, and The Health Sciences Reasoning Test, all published by The California Academic Press, Millbrae CA. Insight Assessment: www. insightassessment. com.
6Allinson RE. (1991). An overview of the Chinese mind. In Understanding the Chinese mind. The Philosophical roots (Allinson R.E., ed. ), Oxford University Press, New York, pp. 1-25.
7Yang KS. (1993). Why do we need an indigenous Chinese psychology? Indigenous Psychological Research in Chinese Societies 1, pp.86-88.
8Facione PA., Facione NC. & Giancarlo CAF. (1998). Professional judgment and the disposition toward critical thinking. The California Academic Press, Millbrae, CA.
9Wu DYH. (1996). Chinese childhood socialization. In The Handbook of Chinese Psychology (Bond M.H., ed. ), Oxford University Press, Hong Kong, pp. 143-154.
10Dardess J. (1991). Childhood in premodern China. In Childhood in Historical and Comparative Perspective (Hawes J.M., Joseph M. & Hines N.R. eds.), Greenwood, New York, pp. 71-94.
