Critical Thinking Skills Guide

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.

• True

• False

Critical thinking skills can help students perform better in a range of subjects.

• True

• False