Critical Thinking Skills

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Need for Critical Thinking

Understanding any situation, subject, topic, issue, problem
Diagnosis
Creativity and innovation
Weighing alternatives
Problem solving
Working out strategies
Decision making
Predicting

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Inventory of Skills for Critical Thinking Competency

1. Accessing and Collecting Information

Locate relevant data, figures, facts, information, knowledge
Collect relevant data, figures, facts, information, knowledge

2. Observing

Gain information by training and using various senses

3. Taking Effective Notes

Record significant information in written form

4. Managing Attention

Focus on multiple observations, retain and recall

5. Attributing

Recognize characteristics or properties of any idea, object or situation

6. Evaluating Evidence

Check if the data/information is valid or correct

7. Organizing in Advance

Create a framework in which information can be arranged, learnt, remembered and used

8. Classifying

Group the entities based on common characteristics or properties

9. Comparing/Contrasting

Examine two or more ideas, objects or situations to uncover or discover similarities or differences between them

10. Determining Cause(s) and Effect Connection

Recognizing and determining relationships between two or more events

11. Recognizing Patterns

Recognizing and understanding the patterns of events from data, information and knowledge

12. Sequencing

Arrange events, items, relationships or objects in a predetermined order

13. Remembering

Retain and recall information and knowledge when needed

14. Prioritizing

Establish an effective order of preference

15. Developing Ideas/Concepts

Working out idea(s) or concept(s) by using investigation/study and analysis

16. Elaborating

Enrich an idea/concept or process to make it better, meaningful and useful

17. Generating and Testing Hypothesis

Formulate a proposition, test it's effectiveness and analyze results

18. Paraphrasing

Rewording accurately the written or spoken information

19. Critically or Strategically Questioning

Intensify quantity and quality of collected information through enquiry and open dialogue

20. Inferring

Deduce conclusions from the collection and analysis of information

21. Thinking Flexibly

Generate variety of thinking categories, shift categories and detour in the direction of thought

22. Thinking Fluently

Generate free flow of ideas quickly resulting in multiple ideas

23. Thinking Originally

Think originally or uniquely to produce non-obvious, and unusual thoughts/ideas

24. Thinking Systematically

Accommodate all the factors that influence an event or a situation and all it's effects, impacts or results in a orderly manner

25. Decision Making

Work out the alternatives and decide which one to choose among them

26. Predicting

Think what will happen in the future

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