Module 13: Higher Order Thinking Flashcards
Higher order thinking
Integrating facts, applying knowledge and skills, and analyzing & evaluation information.
Remember, understand, Apply
Lower level skills
Remember
Remembering facts/information without necessairly understanding
Understand
Making sense of information without connecting information to prior knowledge
Apply
Selecting and using information to solve a problem
Analyze, evalutate, create
Higher level skills
Analyze
Breaking information down and connecting the parts
Evaluate
Judging the value of information
Create
creating or generating new ideas by combining information
Critical Thinking
Purposeful and goal-directed thinking that uses reasoning
Interpretation
Explain or clarify the meaning of something
Inference
Drawing reasonable conclusions based on limited information
Explanation
providing justification for your judgements and conclusions
Self-regulation
Monitoring yourself
Deductive reasoning
the use of logic to determine specific outcomes/expectancies based on general information
Hypothesis testing
Testing your hypothesis
When there is a desired goal that is different from the initial state
Problem
Problem-solving
Attempting to solve the problem
Well-defined problems
Clearly stated with one correct answer
Ill-defined problem
Not clearly stated and may have multiple correct answer
Algorithms
Problem-solving strategies
Heuristics
Rules of thumb for specific contexts
Means-end analysis
Strategy that focuses on dividing the problem into sub-goals
Working backward
begin with end goal and determine how to get there
Analogical thinking
Strategy that focuses on exploring possible solutions that are similair to previos but similair solutioms
Convergent thinking
combining several pieces of information to resolve a problem
Divergent thinking
identifying several outcomes or solutions from a single starting point
