Educational Psychology / Unit 6 EDP 0502 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Critical Thinking
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The idea
Critical thinking is skill at analyzing whether information is reliable and valid, plus the disposition to do so: asking key questions, weighing evidence and reasoning logically.
In practice
Writing questions and comments in a text's margins produced better-reasoned essays than underlining.
Where people slip
A critical thinker is astute, not negative; what makes thinking critical is metacognition, monitoring one's own reasoning.
Your place on the trail
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