Resources

The following resources were used in articulating and reviewing the Complex Thinking Standards, descriptors, and rubrics.

Content Knowledge: A Compendium of Standards and Benchmarks for K-12 Education, McREL, 1996.

Maine’s Common Core of Learning, 1991.

Maine’s Learning Results (Guiding Principles and Content Standards), 1996.

Marzano, Pickering, McTighe, Assessing Student Outcomes: Performance Assessment Using the Dimensions of Learning Model, ASCD, 1994.

Bloom, Benjamin, The Cogntive and Affective Taxonomies

Bruner, Jerome, The Basic Structure of Discipline

Burch, Kay, Creativity

Curry, James, Faces and Forms of Creativity

Kaplin, Sandi, Curriculum Matrix

Guilford, J. P., The Structure of the Intellect

Maker, C. June, Education of the Gifted

Parnes, Sidney, Creative Problem Solving

Rensulli, Enrichment Triad

Taylor, Calvin, Multiple Talent Approach

Treffinger, Donald, Self Directed Learning,

Williams, Frank E., Teaching Strategies for Thinking and Feeling