How can students think critically?
Analyzing and evaluating issues and ideas
Gather and organize relevant information to formulate an argumen
- Practice observing carefully in order to recognize problems
- Gather and organize relevant information to formulate an argument
- Recognize unstated assumptions and bias
- Interpret data
- Evaluate evidence and arguments
- Recognize and evaluate propositions
- Draw reasonable conclusions and generalizations
- Test generalizations and conclusions
- Revise understanding based on new information and evidence
- Evaluate and manage risk
- Formulate factual, topical, conceptual and debatable questions
- Consider ideas from multiple perspectives
- Develop contrary or opposing arguments
- Analyze complex concepts and projects into their constituent parts and synthesize them to create new understanding
- Propose and evaluate a variety of solutions
- Identify obstacles and challenges
- Use models and simulations to explore complex systems and issues
- Identify trends and forecast possibilities
- Troubleshoot systems and applications