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Critical Thinking?
By: http://SBANJAR.kau.edu.sa/
Dr. Shadia Yousef Banjar http://wwwdrshadiabanjar.blogspot.com
• Questioning
• Inquiring
• Search for meaning
• Search for truth
Reflective Thinking
It . . .
• underlies listening and speaking, reading and writing, the basic language
skills.
• plays an important part in social change. All institutions in any society:
courts, governments, schools, businesses, are the products of critical
thinking.
• plays a key role in technological advances.
• frees the human mind from false beliefs and deceptions.
Novice thinkers
Expert thinkers
• Expert thinkers
– Quickly identify relevant information.
– Can formulate a solution with “sketchy” information .
• Novice thinkers
– Consider all information equally important.
– Develop hypothesis, test hypothesis.
– Cannot focus on central issues.
• Byobservation
developing a sense of
and curiosity; • on
By making assertions based
sound logic and solid
• Byfinding
becoming interested in
new solutions;
evidence;
….No surprise….
Whenever we think,
we think for a purpose,
within a point of view,
based on assumptions,
leading to implications and consequences.
• Verbal Reasoning
– Understanding and evaluating the persuasive techniques
found in oral and written language
• Argument Analysis
– Discriminating between reasons that do and do not
support a particular conclusion
• Decision Making
– identifying and judging several alternatives and selecting
the best alternative
• Critical Analysis of Prior Research
– evaluating the value of data and research results in terms
of the methods used to obtain them and their potential
relevance to particular conclusions.
• Compare Explain
• Describe Rephrase
• Outline Show
• Organize Relate
• Classify Identify
• Speculate
• Interpret
• Infer
• Generalize
• Conclude
• Apply Dramatize
• Construct Restructure
• Model Simulate
• Use Translate
• Practice Experiment
• Judge Defend
• Rank Justify
• Rate Prioritize
• Evaluate Support
• Recommend Prove
Synthesis
Higher-Level
Thinking
Analysis
Application
Interpretation
Lower-level
Thinking
Knowledge
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2 Concepts
Concepts are general ideas that we use to identify and
organize our experience. Words are the vocabulary of
language; Concepts are the vocabulary of thought.
Structure of Concepts: PROPERTIES