Critical thinking is art or type of thinking concentrated round idea include three main

parts:
1- Information or data
2- Asking questions or analyzing data
3- Improving the situation or performance
Dimension of critical thinking
1- Having data ( actually situation )
2- Mental dimension ( data analyzing ) activation brain
3- Evaluation dimension : evaluate aims to developed positive and decrease negative
outcomes.(seeing both negative and positive ).
4- Creative manipulate : having answer for the problem ( dealing with available the
available elements in useful form ).
Advantages or characteristics of critical thinking
1- Self directed : person need to think and communicate with himself and his reference is
own standards.
2- Self discipline : everyone knows what must be done or what should not be.
3- Self monitored: self observation to know whats right and whats wrong, person identify
right or wrong according to persons values and believes
4- Self corrected: every one evaluate whats wrong and rights and discovers mistakes to
correct it and dont repeat it again .
5- Mind full : it means logic , it includes high mental activity for brain and nervous system.
6- Depending on communication: the person talk with himself during thinking.
7- Ending by solving problems or having new solutions
Disadvantages of critical thinking
1234-

Biased not fair

May be distorted
Sometimes become in corrected
May partial or in complete.

Why critical thinking is important

Its Important for using in many field such:
1- Problem Solving thinking critically to find what should we do ?
2- Medicine : the improvement of medicine depends on critical thinking and to determine
dosage of medication.
3- Nursing :nurse need to evaluate the patient improvement and how the treatment is
effected.
4- Teaching and learning : teacher need to critical thinking to solve difficult situation.

5- Speaking: each one need to observe themselves during speaking to correct and control
what they say.
6- Writing : any person thinking during writing because thinking is part of writing to present
his ideas.
7- Reading : increase our information to compare what we read now with previous reading.
8- Creativity : it depends on analyzing data and developing positive and getting new
products.
9- Listing: we need critical thinking during listening to analyze data which we listen and
compare it without experience.
- Every person wants to improve himself and evaluate habits to exclude his negative habit
and develop positive habit.
- Wellbeing have two levels
1- Sociological wellbeing
2- Physically wellbeing

Standard :norms or measures or assessment which indicates certain condition as qualities

for object, event and variables .
Standards of critical thinking: its how the person should think fulfill its targets whether
shortest or successfully.
The main condition, steps or qualification of critical thinking
1- Clarity : is one of the most important condition for having easy thinking because clarity
choose the details of situation, so this situation should before the clarity shows the details.
Example :when we ask what will be done for improving education system in Egypt,
This question is not clear and having many difficult
To be answer clear form :
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)

What can teacher do with student to improve students skills

The role of teachers : personal ability
Learning process
Indication of success
Future overview
Steps for having clear situation
1- We must transform every situation into questions
a) How can deal with every point
b) How can I define the main points of situation
c) How can I express every point in details
d) I must have examples for every point
e) I must ask my self and others for every point
2- Accuracy ( perfection ):it means having definite terminology and understanding it .
Why accurate thinking is difficult ?
1) Almost the type we think on narrow skill
2) Self serving or self centralized
3) Our thinking is affected by our thought and believes which may be in accurate .

Critical thinking :
Is the total mental activity depends on information & data which are collected
through various sources of experience and affected by learning , education & health {physical
and mental}
Critical thinking has many dimensions
A Having data : we should be deal with persons .

B Mental dimension : were data is analyzing because it include mental brain .

C Evaluated dimensions : evaluated positive & negative .

D Creative : manipulation or having new product or answer for problem it is dealing with the
available elements in useful form and having new product.

Characteristics or the advantages or the qualification of critical thinking :

1 Self-directed : because person need to communicate think with himself and his reference
is his own standard .

2 Self-deplaned : : self-systemized because the person who define himself who do or what
not to do .

3 Self-monitored : self-observation to know what is right and what is wrong

4 Self-corrected
5 Mindful : responsible or logic and

6 Depends on communication

7 End by solving problems or having a new solutions

The disadvantage of critical thinking :

Why Critical Is Important ?

Critical is important in many for using in many fields :

1 Problem solving : to solve any problem we need to think critically to decide what to do or
what not to do .

2 Medicine : the improvement in medicine depends on critical thinking and also determining
the dosage of education depends on the critical point of view of the doctor .

3 Nursing : because the nurse needs to evaluate the improvement her patient and how the
medicine is effective .

4 Education and Learning : all teachers need to be critical thinkers to overcome the learning
situation and it is difficulties .

5 Speaking : all persons need to observe themselves during speaking to correct and control
what they say for others .

6 Writing : all writers or any person think during writing because thinking is a part of writing
process to our ideas and to clarify our points .

7 Reading : reading increases our information and when we read we need to compare what we
read now with what we read before in pervious or what is stored and saved in our memories .

9 Creativity : depends on analyzing data and developing positives and having new products
from available elements which reflects high need for critical thinking .

10 Listening : to be good listener you should be critical thinker because during listening we
analyze information which we listen and compare it with our past experiences .

11 Well-being : well-being has 2 levels:

A sociological well-being .
B physical well-being .

To have well-being we should revise what we do negative and positive evaluate all situations to
develop it is positives and overcome it is negatives .

The main steps or qualification of critical thinking :

1 Clarity :
Is one of the most important condition for having easy thinking because : clarity
choose the details of situation so this situation should be for the clarity shows the details in clear
question to enable the mind to think of it differentially .

2 Accuracy = perfections :
It means having definite terminology and understanding .
It is definitions because it has some incorrect definition and not accurate here we must add
something to the situation so we need accurate to the situation description .
Why accurate thinking is difficult ?
A Always the time in narrow skills .
B Self serving or self slenderized .
C Our thinking is affected by our thoughts and believes which may be in accurate and always
refusing the others ideas which disagrees our ideas.
For example : we will say mineral water is the best pure water

A - This statement not accurate.

B Any water includes chemical substances like chlorine and salts which let it not pure 100 % .
What may be done to accurate ?
Or How you think accurate ?
1 Should ask myself which is true.
2 Should the question may be truly answered .
3 What are indications for truth ?
For example : some students may say I am good student .
To be accurate I should asked him it is true he is good student then see his attendance in lectures
and get number of his absence .
3 Precision = specification :
Statement may be clear and accurate but not presided
To have decision :
1 We should be find every point in very specific form .
2 We should have details details this enable us to detect valence understands this differences .
For example : when I described diet as successfully or objective for loss of weight I should have
decision for the person weight before and after diet .
4 Relevance :
The relationship between facts and parts and evidence in the situation .
For example : when the student may fell tired and think if he tired more he will got high scores in
exam because he will fell physically tired not according to study .

How to think in refund form ?

A What are the main parts that we should think
B How parts are connected

C How every part is related to each others

D The relation between what I think of and the situation
5 Depth = essence :
It is the opposite of super helical organized

6 Logic thinking = wise or rationally : It is thinking according to circle sequence and think or
relation between actual situation and logic interaction between the events of environment .
7 Wireless = having global overview :
A To be broad mind it will be flixable
B Consider other points of situation .
C Caring for others balancing and comparing between actual element and for feeling targets .
8 Significance =meaning full :
It means how Significance is full and serving the situation .
Therefore the information will be :
1 If it is related to the situation
2 Excluding the irreverent elements in the situation .
9 Fairness :
Objectivity or justified or not biased to be self centralized according to its real way or
effect .

Why Decision Making Is Important ?

1 Our Life Is Considered A Cycle Of Impulse Sequence Of Decision Making .
2 Is a Step That Is Very Important Before Problem Solving .

3 We Need Making Decision In All Life Fields "Political , Financial , Social And Personal " .
6 Making Decisions Helps In Making Life Logic
Decision Making :
It Is Certain Steps Which The Person Follow To Select One Or More Of
Available Choices To Act According To It .
The Logic Of Decision Making :
1 Selecting One Of Available Choices Which Helps In Catching The Target .
2 The Time Allowed For Making Decision
Steps Of Making Decisions :
1 Determining The Subject Of Decisions .
2 Administrating Different Sites Of This Subjects .
3 To Administrate All Subject Points We Should Form It Into Questions .
4 Investigating Every Question And Try To Answer It .
5 Evaluating Every Answer According To How It Is Really Suitable And May Be Applied
Solutions .
Advantages Of Personal Decision :
1 It Is Almostly Simple Because It Affects Only One Person Or Very Limited Number Of
Person .
2 It Is Very Rapid .
Disadvantages Of Personal Decision :
1 It Depends On Mainly On The Person Experience Which Vary From One Person To
Another .
2 Sometimes The Person Experience Is Limited Which Lead To Incorrect Or Risky Decision .
3 Sometimes The Person Delay His Decision Or Hesitate Which Let Him Lose Chances Which
May Be Important For Him .
Types Of Decision Making :
1 Idealistic Style :

Making Decision According To This Style Is Made By Contrasting Or Focus

On The Person Needs And Paying Efforts For Caring For Other Feelings And Thinking Of The
Future .

2 Pragmatic Style :
It Concentrates On Work And Executive Site It Is Usually Rapid Decision .
3 Analytical Style :
It Means Focusing Mainly On Details For Every Choice And Analysis Of
The Situations
4 Realistic Style :
It Is The Style For Making Decisions Depend On Observation
Experimentation .
5 Synthetic Style :
It Focus On Recognizing , Realizing