Critical Thinking
EIU graduates question, examine, evaluate, and respond to problems or arguments by:
- Asking essential questions and engaging diverse perspectives.
- Seeking and gathering data, information, and knowledge from experience, texts, graphics, and media.
- Understanding, interpreting, and critiquing relevant data, information, and knowledge.
- Synthesizing and integrating data, information, and knowledge to infer and create new insights
- Anticipating, reflecting upon, and evaluating implications of assumptions, arguments, hypotheses, and conclusions.
- Creating and presenting defensible expressions, arguments, positions, hypotheses, and proposals.
| Resources |
| Workshop video |
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| PowerPoint |
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| Newsletter |
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| Bloom's Revised Taxonomy |
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| Thinking Skills and Key Words |
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| Critical Thinking Assignment Design |
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| Critical Thinking Sample Exam |
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| Thinking Skills and Key Words |
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| Critical Thinking Exam Guidelines |
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| Critical Thinking Rubrics |
| AAC&U |
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| Kansas State |
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| Minnesota-Duluth |
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| Washington State |
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