Capacitacin y Evaluacin de la Facultad

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Capacitación y Evaluación de la Facultad

• Centro de Innovación Educativa y Desarrollo del
  Docente

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Critical Thinking

• "the art of thinking about your thinking while
  you are
• thinking in order to make your thinking better
  more clear, more accurate, or more defensible."
• Paul, Binker, Adamson, and Martin (1989)

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Critical Tkinking

• We understand critical thinking to be purposeful,
  self regulatory judgment
• which results in
• interpretation, analysis, evaluation, inference
• as well as explanation of the
• evidential, conceptual, methodological,
  criteriological whatever that is! contextual
• considerations upon which that judgment is based.
• Dewey, John

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Critical Thinking

• 'active, persistent, and careful consideration of
  any belief or supposed form of knowledge in the
  light of the grounds that support it and the
  further conclusions to which it tends' (Dewey
  1933 118).
• Dewey, John
• "reasonable, reflective thinking that is focused
  on deciding what to believe or what to do."
• Robert Ennis

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Critical Thinking

• Critical Thinking is "the careful, deliberate
  determination of whether we should accept,
  reject, or suspend judgment about a claim, and
  the degree of confidence with which we accept or
  reject it."
• Moore and Parker, Critical Thinking
• Critical thinking is the skilled and active
  interpretation and evaluation of observations and
  communications, information and argumentation.
• Fisher and Scriven (1997, p.21)

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Critical Tkinking

• Definition
• Critical thinking is the intellectually
  disciplined process of actively and skillfully
  conceptualizing, applying, analyzing,
  synthesizing, and/or evaluating information
  gathered from, or generated by, observation,
  experience, reflection, reasoning, or
  communication, as a guide to belief and action.
• Michael Scriven and Richard Paul

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Critical Thinking

• Universal intellectual values
• Clarity, accuracy, precision, consistency,
  relevance, sound evidence, good reasons, depth,
  breadth, and fairness
• It entails examination of structures of thought
• purpose, problem, or question-at-issue,
  assumptions, concepts, empirical grounding
  reasoning leading to conclusions, implications
  and consequences, objections from alternative
  viewpoints, and frame of reference

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Critical Thinking

• Interwoven modes of thinking
• scientific thinking, mathematical thinking,
  historical thinking, anthropological thinking,
  economic thinking, moral thinking, and
  philosophical thinking.
• Critical thinking can be seen as having two
  components
• a set of skills to process and generate
  information and beliefs, and
• the habit, based on intellectual commitment, of
  using those skills to guide behavior.

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Critical Thinking

• Be contrasted with
• the mere acquisition and retention of information
  alone, (because it involves a particular way in
  which information is sought and treated,)
• the mere possession of a set of skills, (because
  it involves the continual use of them,) and
• the mere use of those skills

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Critical Thinking

• According to Gold (2002) the 4 most significant
  elements of Critical Thinking are
• The critique of tradition
• The critique of authority
• The critique of knowled
• The critique of rethoric being able to evaluate
  the validity and credibility of arguments and /
  or a general scepticism towards statements and
  knowledge.