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WorksheetsCritical Thinking Skills Guide
Total questions: 8
Worksheet time: 10mins
When making inferences, students...
draw conclusions based on the information presented.
reassess inferences based on someone else's opinion or views.
base your conclusions on your own understanding of the information, not the text.
make a determination of what data might be needed based on a tick-tok video.
Why is identifying bias one of the more difficult critican-thinking skills?
Students have no way of identifying their own biases.
Students fail to challenge the evidence they read.
Authors rarely write in favor of a certain point of view, which would impact how much a reader could trust the material.
Identifying bias is not an essential critrial thinking skill because we should all agree on everything and get along.
What is the best way to determine relevance?
Examining bias.
As the student's skills in determining the relevance of documents increase, he or she needs to spend more time sorting through evidence supporting their research.
Avoiding looking through primary and secondary documents.
Identify the information appropriate for solving a problem and making an argument.
Identification refers to the ability to...
identifying others' opinions to solve an issue.
identify the existing problem and what factors impact that problem.
identifying ways to place blame on others for a problem.
identifying what the majority think about a problem so you don't have to think for yourself.
Why might curiosity be a bad thing when researching a topic for relevance?
What are the six critical thinking skills that will help to support students?
Research is important when it comes to understanding claims.
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Critical thinking skills can help students perform better in a range of subjects.
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