Saturday, March 27, 2010

Six Steps of Critical Thinking




Critical thinking involves the use of a group of interconnected skills to analyze, creatively integrate, and evaluate what you read and hear. To become a critical thinker you must be able to decide whether an author’s opinions are true or false, whether he or she has adequately defended those ideas, whether certain recommendations are practical, as well as whether particular solutions will be effective.
    1. Knowledge
    2. Comprehension
    3. Application
    4. Analysis
    5. Synthesis
    6. Evaluation
Knowledge 
- Acquiring facts and critical information.
- Like specific data, methods, patterns, or ideas.
- Be able to learn, recall, repeat, or reproduce that material.

Comprehension
- Understanding the material read, heard, or seen.
- Relating it to what you already know.
- Put it into your own words.
- Able to discuss, express, explain, relate, rearrange, summarize and etc.

Application
- Know what you have read, hear, seen, and your comprehension them and you are able to apply what you have learnt in an actual information.
- Able to apply, illustrate, give examples, prepare.

Analysis
- Look for organizational patterns or principles.
- Break down the material into its components.
- Analysis 

Synthesis
- The ability to put together the parts you analyzed with other information to create something original.
- Extract data or ideas from variety of sources and come up wit your own object, resolution, paper, pattern or organization.
- Able to compose, invent, revise, transform, solve. 

Evaluation
- Able to appraise, evaluate, judge, grade.







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