Learning Objectives
- Identify critical thinking and its process.
- What are the different standards of critical thinking.
- Analytical Skills and Data Analysis.
- Exploring the planning phase.
Modules
- What is critical thinking?
- The importance of critical thinking
- Common critical thinking styles
- Purpose
- Point of view
- Assumptions
- Implications and consequences
- Data, facts, and experience
- Inferences
- The critical thinking model
- The standards of critical thinking
- Identifying the issues
- Clarifying the issues and arguments
- Establishing context
- Checking credibility and consistency
- Clarity
- Relevance
- Logic
- Accuracy
- Ethics of critical thinkers
- Depth
- Significance
- Precision
- Breadth
- Fairness
- Identifying core analytical skills.
- Describing the steps in the analytical process: plan, analyze, conclude.
- Defining the purpose of the analysis.
- Improving your analytical skills by clarifying relevant issues and questions:
- why, who, options, benefits and risks.
- Identifying issues that are essential for a comprehensive understanding.
- Deciding on an approach for an analysis project.
- Creating a data collection plan for obtaining information.
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