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Your Name and Title: Marina P. Bonser, PhD.

School or Organization Name: Global Thinking Development

Area of the World from Which You Will Present: USA, CA

Language in Which You Will Present: English

Target Audience(s): Educators, advisors, students, organizations, and other stakeholders interested in global thinking and global sustainability.

Short Session Description (one line):

Measurement of Global Thinking levels via analyses of solutions to problems 

Full Session Description (as long as you would like):

 I presented my scale for Global Thinking measurement at the Global Education Conference in 2011. It can be also found at the website below. In this current presentation, I’ll give more detailed explanation of how to apply this scale for evaluation of students’ levels of Global Thinking via analyses of their solutions to global problems in the framework of Global Thinking Development course. I use Method of Multilevel Content Analyses to identify student’s Global Thinking levels upon conceptual units in the text of student’s solutions to problems. I’ll consider examples of solutions for case studies on each level of each parameter of the scale, and explain why particular solutions testify for a certain level of Global Thinking. At the end I’ll give a brief review of materials of how to organize Global Thinking workshops and competitions. “Measurement of Global Thinking Levels via Analyses of Solutions to Problems” is one of seven appendices of my doctoral thesis defended in 2004 at the State University of Advanced Teacher Education in St.Petersburg, Russia.

Websites / URLs Associated with Your Session:www.GlobalThinkingWorld.net