Core Objective Definition
Critical Thinking Skills (CT) - creative thinking, innovation, inquiry, and analysis, evaluation and synthesis of information
Web Sites
- Critical Thinking: Where to BeginDefinitions, tools, and papers from the Critical Thinking Community, which works to "promote essential change in education and society through the cultivation of fairminded critical thinking."
- Fundamentals of Critical ThinkingA collection of presentations on the role of critical thinking in higher education and strategies for teaching and assessing a wide range of intellectual skills.
- Critical Thinking Competency StandardsProvides a framework for assessing students’ critical thinking abilities. Enables administrators, teachers and faculty at all levels to determine the extent to which students are reasoning critically within any subject or discipline.
Assessment
- Critical Thinking Interview Profile for College StudentsInstrument to gather information about student views of critical thinking and their development as students and thinkers.
- Critical Thinking Interview Profile for Teachers and FacultyInstrument to gather information about faculty views of critical thinking.
- Critical Thinking Testing and AssessmentCritical Thinking Community's resources and information on assessment of critical thinking.
- Critical Thinking GridFoundation for Critical Thinking instrument for assessing students' critical thinking.
- Creative Thinking VALUE RubricAAC&U rubric for assessing creative thinking, related to critical thinking; preview only
- Information Literacy VALUE RubricAAC&U rubric for assessing information literacy skills; preview only
- Inquiry and Analysis VALUE RubricAAC&U rubric for assessing inquiry and analysis skills; preview only
