Critical thinking skills..

Need for Critical Thinking
Understanding any situation, subject, topic, issue, problem
Diagnosis
Creativity and innovation
Weighing alternatives
Problem solving
Working out strategies
Decision making
Predicting
Inventory of Skills for Critical Thinking Competency
1. Accessing and Collecting Information
Locate relevant data, figures, facts, information, knowledge
Collect relevant data, figures, facts, information, knowledge
2. Observing
Gain information by training and using various senses
3. Taking Effective Notes
Record significant information in written form
4. Managing Attention
Focus on multiple observations, retain and recall
5. Attributing
Recognize characteristics or properties of any idea, object or situation
6. Evaluating Evidence
Check if the data/information is valid or correct
7. Organizing in Advance
Create a framework in which information can be arranged, learnt, remembered and used
8. Classifying
Group the entities based on common characteristics or properties
9. Comparing/Contrasti ng
Examine two or more ideas, objects or situations to uncover or discover similarities or differences between them
10. Determining Cause(s) and Effect Connection
Recognizing and determining relationships between two or more events
11. Recognizing Patterns
Recognizing and understanding the patterns of events from data, information and knowledge
12. Sequencing
Arrange events, items, relationships or objects in a predetermined order
13. Remembering
Retain and recall information and knowledge when needed
14. Prioritizing
Establish an effective order of preference
15. Developing Ideas/Concepts
Working out idea(s) or concept(s) by using investigation/ study and analysis
16. Elaborating
Enrich an idea/concept or process to make it better, meaningful and useful
17. Generating and Testing Hypothesis
Formulate a proposition, test it's effectiveness and analyze results
18. Paraphrasing
Rewording accurately the written or spoken information
19. Critically or Strategically Questioning
Intensify quantity and quality of collected information through enquiry and open dialogue
20. Inferring
Deduce conclusions from the collection and analysis of information
21. Thinking Flexibly
Generate variety of thinking categories, shift categories and detour in the direction of thought
22. Thinking Fluently
Generate free flow of ideas quickly resulting in multiple ideas
23. Thinking Originally
Think originally or uniquely to produce non-obvious, and unusual thoughts/ideas
24. Thinking Systematically
Accommodate all the factors that influence an event or a situation and all it's effects, impacts or results in a orderly manner
25. Decision Making
Work out the alternatives and decide which one to choose among them
26. Predicting
Think what will happen in the future