Critical Thinking

Inquiry

Posing, pursuing, and refining significant questions to deepen understanding about a topic or issue.
 

• Clarify the problem I want to investigate.
• Ask questions about a topic or issue.
• Identify meaningful and relevant questions for investigation. 
• Refine my questions and utilize advanced research techniques.
• Collect, organize and synthesize information from a variety of sources to determine relevance. 

Analyzing

Examining information/data/evidence from multiple sources to identify possible underlying assumptions, patterns, and relationships in order to make inferences.
 

• Examine, assess, interpret or evaluate relevant information.
• Identify underlying assumptions about a topic, or within a set of data.
• Identify patterns within a topic or a set of data, using multiple sources of information.
• Identify relationships between different pieces of information/data/evidence, using multiple sources of information.
• Make inferences based on the patterns and relationships of the information I have analyzed from multiple sources.