Thinking Creatively; Thinking Critically

Thinking Critically An introduction

Critical thinking is an essential skill for students, academics and those whose thinking forms an important aspect of their jobs. Critical thinking is a way of seeing things and a descriptive term for the set of methods used to consider problems. It leads to an informed, aware, systemic, considered and logical approach to deciding what to believe or do; with arguments and conclusions that are m...

Thinking Critically about Assessing Online Learning

Despite the proliferation of technology designed to increase efficiency and connectivity, students’ understanding and comprehension of course content often lags behind the latest advances in e-learning. Critical thinking in the form of higher-order processes provides one way to improve the grasp students have on course content and related knowledge. In this session, the gap between assessment a...

Statistical literacy : Thinking critically about statistics

Statistical literacy is the ability to read and interpret data: the ability to use statistics as evidence in arguments. Statistical literacy is a competency: the ability to think critically about statistics. This introduction defines statistical literacy as a science of method, compares statistical literacy with traditional statistics and reviews some of the elements in reading and interpreting...

Dimensions for Thinking About Thinking

We start by making a distinction between mind and cognition, and by positing that cognition is an aspect of mind. We propose as a working hypothesis a Separability Hypothesis which posits that we can factor off an architecture for cognition from a more general architecture for mind, thus avoiding a number of philosophical objections that have been raised about the "Strong AI" hypothesis. We the...

Critical Thinking about 'critical Thinking'