title: Connecting across the miles: interdisciplinary collaboration in the evaluation of critical thinking.
abstract: A pilot study in which faculty from nursing and English departments at two universities in different states shared a common evaluation tool and collaborated through e-mail to evaluate the evidence of critical thinking in writing portfolios of baccalaureate and masters' nursing students. Loxley's (1997) four processes--assessment, building, managing the process, and evaluating--are used as a framework for describing collaboration among the disciplines in the two universities. Social exchange theory was used to explain the collaboration between participants. All six professors learned a great deal from studying and scoring the writings, but they learned most from each other through their e-mail dialogue.
authors.affiliation: University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA.
authors.forename: H N
authors.initials: HN
authors.lastname: Brown
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Sorrell
mesh_terms: D003195:Computer Communication Networks; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate; D004511:Education, Nursing, Graduate; D005181:Faculty, Nursing; D006801:Humans; D007393:International Educational Exchange; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D015403:Nursing Evaluation Research; D010865:Pilot Projects; D013850:Thinking