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Refereed Journal Articles

Basu, S., Salisbury, C., & Thorkildsen, T. A. (2010). Measuring collaborative consultation practices in natural environments. Journal of Early Intervention, 32, 127-150. doi: 10.1177/1053815110362991

Thorkildsen, T. A. (2007). Adolescents’ moral engagement in urban settings.  Theory into Practice, 46, 113-120. doi: 10.1080/00405840701232976

Thorkildsen, T. A., Sodonis, A., & White-McNulty, L. (2004). Epistemology and adolescents’ conceptions of procedural justice in school. Journal of Educational Psychology, 96, 347-359. doi: 10.1037/0022-0663.96.2.347

Thorkildsen, T. A., & White-McNulty, L. (2002). Developing conceptions of fair contest procedures and the differentiation of skill and luck. Journal of Educational Psychology, 94, 316-326. doi: 10.1037/0022-0663.94.2.316

Thorkildsen, T. A. (2002). Literacy as a lifestyle: Learning to respect the voices of urban students. Reading and Writing Quarterly, 18, 321-341. doi: 10.1080/07487630290061863

Thorkildsen, T. A., Reese, D., & Corsino, A. (2002). School ecologies and attitudes about exclusionary behavior among adolescents and young adults. Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 48, 25-51. doi: 10.1353/mpq.2002.0004

Lau, S., Nicholls, J. G., Thorkildsen, T. A., & Patashnick, M. (2000). Chinese and American adolescents’ perceptions of the purposes of education and beliefs about the world of work. Social Behavior and Personality, 28, 73-90. doi: 10.2224/sbp.2000.28.1.73

Thorkildsen, T. A., & Nicholls, J. G. (1998). Fifth graders’ achievement orientations and beliefs: Individual and classroom difference. Journal of Educational Psychology, 90, 179-201. doi: 10.1037/0022-0663.90.2.179

Thorkildsen, T. A. & Schmahl, C. (1997). Conceptions of fair learning practices among low-income African American and Latin American Children: Acknowledging diversity. Journal of Educational Psychology, 89, 719-727. doi: 10.1037/0022-0663.89.4.719

Thorkildsen, T. A., Nolen, S. B., & Fournier, J. (1994). What's fair? Children's critiques of practices that influence motivation. Journal of Educational Psychology, 86, 475-486. doi: 10.1037/0022-0663.86.4.475

Thorkildsen, T. A. (1994). Toward a fair community of scholars: Moral education as the negotiation of classroom practices. Journal of Moral Education, 23, 371-385.  (Reprinted in Journal of Learning and Evaluation, published in Japan by the Center for the Study of Learning.)

Thorkildsen, T. A. (1994).  Some ethical implications of communal and competitive approaches to gifted education. Roeper Review, 17, 54-57. doi: 10.1080/02783199409553620

Thorkildsen, T. A. (1993). Those who can, tutor: High ability students' conceptions of fair ways to organize learning. Journal of Educational Psychology, 85, 182-190. doi: 10.1037/0022-0663.85.1.182

Thorkildsen, T. A., & Nicholls, J. G. (1991). Students' critiques as motivation. Educational Psychologist, 26, 347-368. doi: 10.1207/s15326985ep2603&4_7

Thorkildsen, T. A. (1991). Defining social goods and distributing them fairly: The development of conceptions of fair testing practices. Child Development, 62, 852-862. doi: 10.2307/1131182

Nicholls, J. G., & Thorkildsen, T. A. (1989). Intellectual conventions verses matters of substance: Elementary school students as curriculum theorists. American Educational Research Journal, 26, 533-544. doi: 10.2307/1162863

Thorkildsen, T. A. (1989). Pluralism in children's reasoning about social justice. Child Development, 60, 965-972. doi: 10.2307/1131036

Thorkildsen, T. A. (1989). Justice in the classroom: The student's view. Child Development, 60, 323-334. doi: 10.2307/1130979

Thorkildsen, T. A. (1988). Theories of education among academically able adolescents. Contemporary Educational Psychology, 13, 323-330. doi: 10.1016/0361-476X(88)90031-8

Nicholls, J. G., & Thorkildsen, T. A. (1988). Children's distinctions among matters of intellectual conventions, logic, fact, and personal preferences. Child Development, 59, 939-949. doi: 10.2307/1130260

 

Refereed Books

Thorkildsen, T. A. (2005). Fundamentals of measurement in applied research. Boston, MA: Allyn & Bacon.

Thorkildsen, T. A., & Walberg, H. J. (Eds.). (2004). Nurturing morality.  New York, NY: Kluwer.

Thorkildsen, T. A., & Nicholls, J. G. (with Bates, A., Brankis, N., & DeBolt, T.). (2002). Motivation and the struggle to learn: Responding to fractured experience.  Boston, MA: Allyn & Bacon.

Nicholls J. G., & Thorkildsen, T. A. (Eds.). (1995). Reasons for learning: Expanding the conversation on student-teacher collaboration. New York: Teachers College Press.

 

Book Chapters

Thorkildsen, T. A., Golant, C. J., & Cambray-Engstrom, E. (2008).  Essential solidarities for understanding Latino adolescents’ moral and academic engagement.  In C. Hudley, & A. E. Gottfried (Eds.), Academic motivation and the culture of schooling in childhood and adolescence (pp. 73-98). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Thorkildsen, T. A., Golant, C. J., & Richesin, L.D. (2007). Reaping what we sow: Cheating as a mechanism of moral engagement.  In E.M. Anderman, & T. B. Murdock (Eds.), The psychology of academic cheating (pp. 171-202). San Diego, CA: Elsevier.

Thorkildsen, T. A. (2007). The role of personal standards in second graders’ moral and academic engagement. In D. Thiessen, & A. Cook-Sather (Eds.), International handbook of student experience in elementary and secondary school (pp. 193-231).  New York: Springer.

Thorkildsen, T. A. (2004). Moral functioning in school.  In T. A. Thorkildsen, & H. J. Walberg (Eds.), Nurturing morality (pp. 137-155).  New York, NY: Kluwer.

Thorkildsen, T. A. (2000). Children's coordination of procedural and commutative justice in school.  In W. van Haaften, T. Wren, & A. Tellings (Eds.), Moral sensibilities and education II: The schoolchild (pp. 61-88). Bemmel, Netherlands: Concorde Publishing House.  (Reprinted in Spanish.)

Thorkildsen, T. A. (2000). The way tests teach: Children’s theories of how much testing is fair in school.  In M. Leicester, C. Modgil, & S. Modgil (Eds.), Education, culture, and values, Vol. III: Classroom issues: practice, pedagogy, and curriculum (pp. 61-79). London: Falmer Press.

Nicholls, J. G., & Thorkildsen, T. A. (with Bates, A.). (1997). Experience through the eyes of Quiet Bird: Reconnecting personal life and school life. In A. Pollard, A. Flier, & D. Thiessen (Eds.), Children and the curriculum: The perspectives of primary and elementary school pupils (pp. 122-140).  London, Ontario: Falmer Press.

Nicholls, J. G., & Thorkildsen, T. A. (1995). Beyond what works.  In J. G. Nicholls, & T. A. Thorkildsen (Eds.), Reasons for learning: Expanding the conversation on student-teacher collaboration (pp. 1-4). New York: Teachers College Press.

Pergande, K., & Thorkildsen, T. A. (1995). From teachers as experimental researchers to teaching as moral inquiry.  In J. G. Nicholls, & T. A. Thorkildsen (Eds.), Reasons for learning: Expanding the conversation on student-teacher collaboration (pp. 21-35). New York: Teachers College Press.

Thorkildsen, T. A. & Jordan, C. (1995). Is there a right way to collaborate?  When the experts speak can the customers be right? In J. G. Nicholls, & T. A. Thorkildsen (Eds.), Reasons for learning: Expanding the conversation on student-teacher collaboration (pp. 137-161). New York: Teachers College Press.

Thorkildsen, T. A. (1995). Conceptions of social justice. In W. M. Kurtines, & J. L. Gewirtz (Eds.), Moral development: An introduction (pp. 511-533). New York: Allyn & Bacon.

Nicholls, J. G., Patashnick, M., Cheung, P. C., Thorkildsen, T. A., & Lauer, J. (1989). Can theories of achievement motivation succeed with only one conception of success? In F. Halish, & J. van den Bercken (Eds.), International perspectives on achievement and task motivation (pp. 187-208). Lisse, Holland: Swets & Zeitlinger.

 

Informally Refereed Work

Thorkildsen, T. A. (2010).  Validity of measurement. In N. J. Salkind (Ed.), Encyclopedia of research design, Vol. 3. (pp. 1591-1596). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

Thorkildsen, T. A., & Hanus, K. (2009). Civility.  In S. J. Lopez (Ed.), Encyclopedia of positive psychology (Vol. 1, pp. 160-162). Oxford, UK and Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.

Thorkildsen, T. A., & Hanus, K. (2009). Honesty.  In S. J. Lopez (Ed.), Encyclopedia of positive psychology (Vol. 1, pp.484-487). Oxford, UK and Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.

Thorkildsen, T. A. (1994).  Is testing teaching? The young child's perspective.  Orbit, 25, 22-24.

Thorkildsen, T. A. (1994).  Through students' eyes: A fair classroom.  Update, 18, 56-62.

 

Book and Film Reviews

Thorkildsen, T. A. (2011, July 27) Education as a person-centered process. [Review of the book International research handbook on values education and student wellbeing]. PsycCRITIQUES—Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books, 56 (no. 30) Article 4. doi: 10.1037/a0024227

Thorkildsen, T. A. (2010, October 13). Giving as a virtue and a vice. [Review of the motion picture Please Give]. PsycCRITIQUES—Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books, 55 (no. 41) Article 9

Thorkildsen, T. A. (2010, May 19). American gullibility [Review of the motion picture Capitalism: A Love Story]. PsycCRITIQUES—Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books, 55, (no. 20) Article 9. Retrieved 5/22/10 from the PsycCRITIQUES database.

Thorkildsen, T. A. (2010, May 5).Folk wisdom in the internet era. [Review of the book Consequential strangers]. PsycCRITIQUES—Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books, 55 (no. 18), Article 7. Retrieved 5/6/10 from the PsycCRITIQUES database.

Thorkildsen, T. A. (2010, March 24). Making and acting on life choices [Review of the motion picture Adoration]. PsycCRITIQUES—Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books, 55 (no.12), Article 9. Retrieved 3/24/10 from the PsycCRITIQUES database.

Thorkildsen, T. A. (2009, November 18). The power of civic engagement  [Review of the book The new humanitarians: Inspiration, innovations, and blueprints for visionaries] PsycCRITIQUES—Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books, 54 (no. 46), Article 1. Retrieved 11/20/09 from the PsycCRITIQUES database

Thorkildsen, T. A. (2008, November 26). Discovery and re-discovery in early childhood. [Review of the book Social life and social knowledge: Toward a process account of development]. PsycCRITIQUES—Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books, 53 (no. 48), Article 7.  Retrieved 11/26/08 from the PsycCRITIQUES database.

Thorkildsen, T. A. (2008, July 9). Coming out of Gogol’s overcoat [Review of the motion picture The Namesake]. PsycCRITIQUES—Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books, 53 (No. 28), Article 12. Retrieved 7/14/08 from the PsycCRITIQUES database.

Thorkildsen, T. A. (2008, April 9). Flouting clichés about courtship [Review of the motion picture Once].  PsycCRITIQUES—Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books, 53 (No. 15), Article 12.  Retrieved 4/14/08 from the PsycCRITIQUES database.

Thorkildsen, T. A. (2008, March 26). Taking time for disciplinary reflection [Review of the book Appraising the human developmental sciences: Essays in honor of Merrill-Palmer Quarterly].  PsycCRITIQUES—Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books, 53 (No. 13), Article 9. Retrieved 3/29/08 from the PsycCRITIQUES database

Thorkildsen, T. A. (2007, August 22).  Clinical analyses of human relationships [Review of the book The meaning of others: Narrative studies of relationships].  PsycCRITIQUES—Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books, 52 (No. 34), Article 9. Retrieved 8/26/07 from the PsycCRITIQUES database.

Thorkildsen, T. A. (2007, June 13).  Should motivation and emotion be distinguished? [Review of the book The laws of emotion].  PsycCRITIQUES—Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books, 52 (No. 24), Article 2. Retrieved 6/13/07 from the PsycCRITIQUES database.

Thorkildsen, T. A. (2006, December 27).  Care gone awry [Review of the motion picture Nine Lives]. PsycCRITIQUES—Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books, 51 (No. 52), Article 18.  Retrieved 12/28/06 from the PsycCRITIQUES database.

Thorkildsen, T. A. (2006, December 20). When a father is a child [Review of the motion picture L’Enfant (The Child)]. PsycCRITIQUES—Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books, 51 (No. 51), Article 20. Retrieved 11/29/06, from the PsycCRITIQUES database.

Thorkildsen, T. A. (2006, November 29).  Strengthening a human connection to nature [Review of the motion picture An inconvenient truth]. PsycCRITIQUES—Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books, 51 (No. 48), Article 20. Retrieved 11/29/06, from the PsycCRITIQUES database.

Thorkildsen, T. A. (2006, July 5). An empirical exploration of language and thought [Review of the book Theory of mind and language in developmental contexts].  PsycCRITIQUES—Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books, 51 (No. 27), Article 11. Retrieved 7/12/06 from the PsycCRITIQUES database.

Thorkildsen, T. A. (2006, May 24). Gestures speak as loud as words [Review of the book Gesture and thought]. PsycCRITIQUES—Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books, 51 (No. 21), Article 14. Retrieved 5/26/06, from the PsycCRITIQUES database.

Thorkildsen, T. A. (2005, November 30). When and how are we mindful of prejudice? [Review of the book On the nature of prejudice: Fifty years after Allport]. PsycCRITIQUES—Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books, 50 (No. 48), Article 1. Retrieved 12/1/05, from the PsycCRITIQUES database.

Thorkildsen, T. A. (2005, August 3). When collective agendas overtake personal responsibility [Review of the book The social psychology of inclusion and exclusion]. PsycCRITIQUES—Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books, 50 (No. 31), Article 8. Retrieved 8/10/05, from the PsycCRITIQUES database.

Thorkildsen, T. A. (2005, May 11). Nature or nurture? No, development is an epigenetic process.  [Review of the book Biology and knowledge revisited: From neurogenesis to psychogenesis]. PsycCRITIQUES—Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books, 50 (No. 19), Article 3. Retrieved 8/10/05, from the PsycCRITIQUES database.

Thorkildsen, T. A. (2005, February 16). Coordinating living and static cultures [Review of the motion picture Whale rider]. PsycCRITIQUES—Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books, 50 (No. 7), Article 20. Retrieved March 23, 2005, from the PsycCRITIQUES database.

Thorkildsen, T. A. (2005, January 5). Simple pleasures in a complex era [Review of the motion picture Seabiscuit]. PsycCRITIQUES—Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books, 50 (1), Article 21. Retrieved March 23, 2005, from the PsycCRITIQUES database.

Thorkildsen, T. A. (2004, December 14). Nurturing adolescents or capitalizing on free labor? [Review of the book Serve and learn: Implementing and evaluating service learning in middle and high schools]. PsycCRITIQUES—Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books, 49 (12), Article 12. Retrieved March 23, 2005, from the PsycCRITIQUES database.

Thorkildsen, T. A. (2004). Review of “Critical Consciousness: A study of morality in global, historical context” Journal of Moral Education, 33, 104-106.

 

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