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Critical Thinking
Critical thinking is a fundamental career skill these days, where we are overwhelmed with information, and have to decide what is accurate, and what is not. Simply, people with critical thinking skills are more valuable to an employer than those who lack those skills. This section is about thinking critically.
Critical Thinking Field Guide (Skeptical Inquirer Winter 1990)
By James Lett - Critical thinking is discussed in relationship to paranormal and occult claims. A quote: "The six rules of evidential reasoning are my own distillation and simplification of the scientific method. To make it easier for students to remember these half-dozen guidelines, I've coined an acronym for them: Ignoring the vowels, the letters in the word "FiLCHeRS" stand for the rules of Falsifiability, Logic, Comprehensiveness, Honesty, Replicability, and Sufficiency. Apply these six rules to the evidence offered for any claim, I tell my students, and no one will ever be able to sneak up on you and steal your belief. You'll be filch-proof." (Added: 6-Oct-2003 Hits: 1986 )Let Your Students Teach Their Class
By Naoyoshi Ogawa - This paper presents a step-by-step description of a student-centered teaching technique for assisting students to a higher skill level by challenging them to teach their class. First, as a foundation for the technique, four topics of current theoretical interest are introduced: Neo-Vygotskian learning theory; research on the application of cognitive psychology to education; evaluation of communication strategies; and teachers' reports as instruments of assessment (Added: 27-Sep-2006 Hits: 870 )Applying Critical Thinking- An Important Survival Skill
By Robert Bacal - In order to think more critically, we must be willing to identify and explore our own emotional positions on issues, and our biases and "perceptual goggles". Interestingly enough increasing our own awareness of these factors with respect to particular problems helps us avoid ineffective decisions, while at the same time, helping us learn about ourselves Most Read (Added: 14-Oct-2000 Hits: 12992 )Distinguishing Between Inferences and Assumptions
By na - To be skilled in critical thinking is to be able to take one’s thinking apart systematically, to analyze each part, assess it for quality and then improve it. The first step in this process is understanding the parts of thinking, or elements of reasoning. These elements are: purpose, question, information, inference, assumption, point of view, concepts, and implications. They are present in the mind whenever we reason. new (Added: 5-Dec-2011 Hits: 56 )Decision Making Without Critical Thinking
By n a - Decision making without critical thinking is how we used to do it. Decision making without critical thinking may seem ridiculous when you think about it. Because nowadays, thinking is something we do a lot of. To be able to think is valued in our society. In fact, you could be forgiven for thinking that most people only exist from the neck up! (Added: 6-Dec-2006 Hits: 1258 )| Library Home Page |
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