Bennett Goldberg

Kathryn Spilios

Boston University

VIDEO 3: CRITICAL THINKING

CRITICAL THINKING

“intellectually disciplined process of actively and skillfully conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and/or evaluating information gathered from, or generated by, observation, experience, reflection, reasoning, or communication, as a guide to belief and action”

https://www.criticalthinking.org/pages/defining-critical-thinking/766

National Council on Excellence in Critical Thinking, 1987

Critical Thinking is

https://www.criticalthinking.org/pages/defining-critical-thinking/766

National Council on Excellence in Critical Thinking, 1987

Critical Thinking is

Critical Thinking

Entails examination of those structures or elements of thought implicit in all reasoning:

• purpose, problem, or question-at-issue

• assumptions; concepts; and frame of reference

• empirical grounding;

• reasoning leading to conclusions;

• implications and consequences;

• objections from alternative viewpoints;

https://www.criticalthinking.org/pages/defining-critical-thinking/766

https://www.criticalthinking.org/pages/defining-critical-thinking/766

Critical Thinking – a Family of Modes of Thought:

Critical Thinking – a Family of Modes of Thought:

Critical Thinking – a Family of Modes of Thought:

Critical Thinking – a Family of Modes of Thought:

Critical Thinking – a Family of Modes of Thought:

1. A set of information and belief generating and processing skills, and

2. The habit, based on intellectual commitment, of using those skills to guide behavior.

https://www.criticalthinking.org/pages/defining-critical-thinking/766

Critical Thinking – two components

1. A set of information and belief generating and processing skills, and

2. The habit, based on intellectual commitment, of using those skills to guide behavior.

Critical thinking is not:

• the mere acquisition and retention of information alone,

• the mere possession of a set of skills, and

• the mere use of those skills without acceptance of their results.

https://www.criticalthinking.org/pages/defining-critical-thinking/766

Critical Thinking – two components

Critical Thinking in STEM education:• Using evidence and data to guide conclusion formation

and knowledge generation

• Inquiry-based labs

• Discovery labs

Critical Thinking in STEM education:• Using data to guide conclusion formation and knowledge

generation

• Inquiry-based labs

• Discovery labs

• The cycle of scientific inquiry

• Project-based learning