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Critical Thinking

"For myself, I found that I was fitted for nothing so well as for the study of Truth; as having a mind nimble and versatile enough to catch the resemblances of things … and at the same time steady enough to fix and distinguish their subtler differences; as being gifted by nature with desire to seek, patience to doubt, fondness to meditate, slowness to assert, readiness to consider, carefulness to dispose and set in order; and as being a man that neither affects what is new nor admires what is old, and that hates every kind of imposture."
Francis Bacon, 1605

How Does Your Thinking Compare With
SUNY's Assessment Standards?

The SUNY Critical Thinking Rubric
Downloaded from the web 2/21/07 (pdf).

The SUNY Critical Thinking Rubric - Classroom Displays
Extracted by Element & Formatted for Classroom Display (pdf)

The SUNY Critical Thinking Rubric - Sample Graded Essays
Downloaded from the web 2/21/07 (pdf)

The SUNY Writing Rubric
Downloaded from the web 2/21/07 (pdf)

The SUNY Math Rubric
Downloaded from the web 2/21/07 (pdf)

How Does Your Thinking Compare With
CUNY's Critical Thinking and Writing Standard?

The CUNY Proficiency Examination (CPE)
The City University of New York's requirement for the demonstration of academic literacy: the ability to understand and think critically about ideas and information presented in print and the ability to write clearly, logically, and correctly

The CUNY Proficiency Examination (CPE) - Printable Transcription (pdf)
Extracted from the CPE web site on 2/21/2007

Critical Thinking Resources on the Web

Relationships, Insight, and Assessment - Exercising the Gateways to Critical Thinking
A talk by Paul Kramer

A Definition of Critical Thinking
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical%5Fthinking

More Definitions of Critical Thinking
(From the site "Critical Thinking on the Web," below)
http://www.austhink.org/critical/pages/definitions.html

Critical Thinking on the Web
http://www.austhink.org/critical/

An Outline of Goals for Critical Thinking and Its Assessment
http://faculty.ed.uiuc.edu/rhennis/outlinegoalsctcurassess3.html

A Super Streamlined Conception of Critical Thinking
http://faculty.ed.uiuc.edu/rhennis/SSConcCTApr3.html

Foundation for Critical Thinking
http://www.criticalthinking.org/

University of Missouri-St. Louis Critical Thinking Links
http://www.umsl.edu/~klein/Critical_Thinking.html

Critical Thinking: What It Is and Why It Counts
Peter A. Facione
Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences
Santa Clara University
16 page pdf document
http://www.calpress.com/pdf_files/what&why.pdf

Critical Thinking: A Statement of Expert Consensus for Purposes of Educational Assessment and Instruction
Executive Summary
“The Delphi Report”
Dr. Peter A. Facione,
Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences
Santa Clara University
20 page pdf document
http://www.insightassessment.com/pdf_files/DEXadobe.PDF

Yahoo search on "Critical Thinking"
http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=%22Critical+Thinking%22

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