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
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.
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.
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.