CORE CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS

Question 1

To comprehend and express meaning or significance of a wide variety of experiences,
situation, data, events, judgements, conventions, beliefs, rules, procedures, or criteria.

Answer 1

Interpretation

Question 2

To identify the intended and actual inferential relationships among statements, questions,
concepts, descriptions, or other forms of representation intended to express belief,
judgement, experiences, reasons, information, or opinions.

Answer 2

Analysis

Question 3

To identify and secure elements needed to draw reasonable conclusions; to form
conjectures and hypothesis; from data, statements, principles, evidence, judgements,
beliefs, opinions, concepts, descriptions, questions, or other forms of representation.

Answer 3

Inference

Question 4

To assess the credibility of statements which are accounts or descriptions of a person’s
perception, experience, situation, judgement, belief or opinion assessing the logical
strength of the actual or intended inferential relationships among statements, descriptions,
questions or forms of representation.

Answer 4

Evaluation

Question 5

To present in a cogent and coherent way the results of one’s reasoning; or to state the
results of one’s reasoning ; to justify that reasoning in terms of the evidential, conceptual,
methodological, criteriological, and contextual reasoning in the form of cogent arguments.

Answer 5

Explanation

Question 6

Self-consciously monitoring one’s cognitive activities, the elements used in those activities,
and the results produced, particularly by applying in the analysis, and evaluation to one’s
own inferential judgements with a view toward questioning, confirming, validation, or
correcting either one’s reasoning or one’s results.

Answer 6

Self-regulation

Question 7

What are the 6 core critical thinking skills

Answer 7

Interpretation, Analysis, Inference, Evaluation, Explanation, Self-regulation