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Critical thinking is the process of analyzing available facts, evidence, observations, and arguments to make sound conclusions or informed choices. It involves recognizing underlying assumptions, providing justifications for ideas and actions, evaluating these justifications through comparisons with varying perspectives, and assessing their rationality and potential consequences. [1]
Elder's work has focused primary on the barriers to critical thinking development, closely to egocentric and sociocentric thought. [9] She had explained ethnocentricity as a form of sociocentricity, since, on her view, sociocentrism refers to all forms of group pathologies in thought, and therefore goes beyond those pathologies that arise out of ethnicity. [10]
There is empirical evidence that the skills developed in argument-mapping-based critical thinking courses substantially transfer to critical thinking done without argument maps. Alvarez's meta-analysis found that such critical thinking courses produced gains of around 0.70 SD, about twice as much as standard critical-thinking courses. [54]
Critical thinking is a form of thinking that is reasonable, reflective, and focused on determining what to believe or how to act. [151] [152] [153] It holds itself to various standards, like clarity and rationality.
Skills in critical thinking. Subcategories. This category has the following 8 subcategories, out of 8 total. A. Analysis (20 C, 38 P) C. Criticism (4 C, 6 P) D.
The standards for evaluating non-deductive arguments may rest on different or additional criteria than truth—for example, the persuasiveness of so-called "indispensability claims" in transcendental arguments, [7] the quality of hypotheses in retroduction, or even the disclosure of new possibilities for thinking and acting. [8]
Pages in category "Critical thinking" The following 21 pages are in this category, out of 21 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Critical thinking is an important educational outcome for students. [48] Education institutions have experimented with several strategies to help foster critical thinking, as a means to enhance information evaluation and information literacy among students. When evaluating evidence, students should be encouraged to practice formal argumentation ...