1. What is critical thinking?
Critical thinking is the intellectually disciplined process of actively and skillfully transcending, applying, analyzing, and evaluating information gathered from observations, experience, reasoning, and/or communication and a guide to belief and action (Scriven and Paul, 1999).
It is based on universal intellectual values that surpass subject matter divisions, such as clarity, accuracy, precision, consistency, relevance, good reasoning, and fairness. Plus entails critical thinking elements such as purpose, assumptions, concepts, reasoning leading to conclusion, consequences, alternative viewpoints, and frame of reference. As Scriven and Paul states,” No one is a critical thinker through-and-throug
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