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Letter to the Reader

Critical Thinking Competency Standards: Guide for Educators

 The Structure of This Guide

Understanding the Intimate Relationship Between

Critical Thinking, Learning, and Education

 The Concept of Critical Thinking

 The "What" and the "How" of Education

 Critical Thinking Is the "How" for Obtaining Every Educational "What"

 Critical Thinking and Learning

 Critical Thinking and the Educated Person

 Critical Thinking and Information Literacy

 The Growing Importance of Critical Thinking

 Critical and Creative Thinking

 Critical Thinking and the Mastery of Content

 Adapting the Standards for Particular Subjects

The Structure and Components of the Competencies

 Relating the Competencies to Critical Thinking Concepts

 Outlining the Components in Each Competency

 A Master Rubric

The Critical Thinking Competencies

 Standard One: Purposes, Goals, and Objectives

 Standard Two: Questions, Problems, and Issues

 Standard Three: Information, Data, Evidence, and Experience

 Standard Four: Inferences and Interpretations

 Standard Five: Assumptions & Presuppositions

 Standard Six: Concepts, Theories, Principles, Definitions, Laws, and Axioms

 Standard Seven: Implications and Consequences

 Standard Eight: Points of View and Frames of Reference

 Standard Nine: Assessing Thinking

 Standard Ten: Fairmindedness

 Standard Eleven: Intellectual Humility

 Standard Twelve: Intellectual Courage

 Standard Thirteen: Intellectual Empathy

 Standard Fourteen: Intellectual Integrity

 Standard Fifteen: Intellectual Perseverance

 Standard Sixteen: Con~dence in Reason

 Standard Seventeen: Intellectual Autonomy

 Standard Eighteen: Insight into Egocentricity

 Standard Nineteen: Insight into Sociocentricity

 Standard Twenty: Skills in the Art of Studying and Learning

 Standard Twenty-One: Skills in the Art of Asking Essential Questions

 Standard Twenty-Two: Skills in the Art of Close Reading

 Standard Twenty-Three: Skills in the Art of Substantive Writing

 Standard Twenty-Four: Ethical Reasoning Abilities

 Standard Twenty-Five: Skills in Detecting Media Bias and Propaganda in National and World News

Appendix

 Critical Thinking Theory Underlying the Competencies

 All Thinking Can be Analyzed by Identifying its Eight Elements

 To AnalyzeThinking We Must Learn to Identify and Question Its Elemental Structures

 All Thinking Must be Assessed for Quality Using Universal Intellectual Standards

 The Ultimate Goal of Critical Thinking is to Foster the Development of Intellectual Traits or Dispositions

 Critical Thinkers Routinely Apply the Intellectual Standards to the Elements of Reasoning in Order to Develop Intellectual Traits

 Egocentrism and Sociocentrism, Natural Predispositions of the Mind and Powerful Barriers to the Development of Thinking

 Deepening Your Understanding of the Critical Thinking Competencies