"Faculty often worry that students can't or won't read critically, a foundational skill for success in academic and professional endeavors. 'Critical reading' refers both to reading for academic purposes and reading for social engagement."
—from Critical Reading in Higher Education: Academic Goals and Social Engagement by Karen Manarin et al.
From Distracted to Recursive Reading: Facilitating Knowledge Transfer through Annotation Software by Kersh & Skalak discuss recursive reading strategy that faculty from Dickinson College used for Oliver Twist.
Critical Reading in Higher Education: Academic Goals and Social Engagement by Manarin, Carey, Rathburn, and Ryland "is based on collaborative, multidisciplinary research into how students read in first-year courses . . . The authors discovered the good (students can read), the bad (students are not reading for social engagement), and the ugly (class assignments may be setting students up for failure) and they offer strategies that can better engage students and provide more meaningful reading experiences."