Guiding Principle: The goal of instruction in “critical thinking” is to help students become capable of critical and open-minded questioning and reasoning. An understanding of argument is central to critical thinking.
Definition: Critical Thinking competency
Ability to examine issues and ideas and to identify good and bad reasoning in a variety of fields with differing assumptions, contents and methods.
Criteria
1. Information Acquisition:
• Identify questions, problems, and arguments.
• Differentiate questions, problems, and arguments.
2. Application
• Evaluate the appropriateness of various methods of reasoning and verification.
• State position or hypothesis, give reasons to support it and state its limitations.
3. Analysis
• Identify stated and unstated assumptions.
• Assess stated and unstated assumptions.
• Critically compare different points of view
4. Synthesis
• Formulate questions and problems.
• Construct and develop cogent arguments.
• Articulate reasoned judgments.
5. Communication
• Discuss alternative points of view.
• Defend or criticize a point of view in view of available evidence.
6. Evaluation
• Evaluate the quality of evidence and reasoning.
• Draw an appropriate conclusion.
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