Critical Thinking Skills

OT Dude Academy’s Free NBCOT® Exam Prep Course Studying Mindset, Habits, and Routines Critical Thinking Skills
SkillDescriptionSubskill
InterpretationAssess the credibility of claims and assess quality of arguments that were made using
inductive or deductive
reasoning		Categorize,
Decode significance,
Clarify meaning
Analysis“Self-consciously to monitor one’s cognitive activities, the elements used in those activities, and the results reduced, particularly by applying skills in analysis, and evaluation to one’s own inferential judgments with a view toward questioning, confirming, validating, or correcting either one’s reasoning or one’s results”Examine ideas,
Identify arguments,
Identify reasons and claims
Inference“To identify and secure elements needed to draw reasonable conclusions; to form conjectures and hypotheses; to consider relevant information and to reduce the consequences flowing from data, statements, principles, evidence, judgments, beliefs, opinions, concepts, descriptions, questions, or other forms of representation”Query evidence, Conjecture alternatives, Draw logically valid or justified conclusions
EvaluationAssess the credibility of claims and assess the quality of arguments that were made using
inductive or deductive
reasoning		Assess the credibility of claims and assess the quality of arguments that were made using
inductive or deductive
reasoning
Explanation“To state and to justify that reasoning in terms of the evidential, conceptual, methodological, criteriological, and contextual considerations upon which one’s results were based; and to present one’s reasoning in the form of cogent arguments”State results,
Justify procedures,
Present arguments
Self-regulationAssess the credibility of claims and assess the quality of arguments that were made using
inductive or deductive
reasoning		Self-monitor, Self-correct
Source: APA Report: Expert Consensus Statement on Critical Thinking. (ERIC ED 315 423)
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