Education and Early Childhood Learning

Dimensions of Critical Thinking

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• Acquire and interpret information from a variety of relevant and reliable sources to become well informed.
  • Learners find, use, and reflect on diverse sources strategically, efficiently, and effectively.
  • Learners evaluate the sources of their and others’ perspectives for bias, reliability, and relevance.
• Analyze, synthesize, and consider one’s own thinking and that of others in various contexts.
  • Learners connect ideas, patterns, and relationships, using criteria and evidence.
  • Learners understand how perspectives are rooted in certain contexts.
  • Learners demonstrate flexibility to reconsider their thinking.
• Use various types of evidence, reasoning, and strategies to work toward a reasoned judgment or ethical decision.
  • Learners ask relevant and clarifying questions to further learning.
  • Learners develop informed opinions and make judgments, based on observation, experience, and evidence.
  • Learners weigh criteria to make ethical decisions.