Critical Thinking Skills Critical thinking is drawing out meaning from available data or statements, and examining and questioning accuracy and credibility in order to establish one’s views and evaluate the arguments put forward by oneself and others. Key Stage 1 Key Stage 2 Key Stage 3 Key Stage 4 Students will learn to Students will learn to Students will to Students will learn to extract, classify and organise make inductions/inferences identify the issue at stake between real and differentiate information from sources stated issues, and accurate clarify and define key words to representations, and relevant identify and express main other sources to guide thinking and irrelevant evidence ideas, problems or core issues determine the reliability of a compare information from source differentiate between understand straightforward different sources, note contrasts sophisticated fact, opinion and cause-and-effect relationships understand the concepts of and similarities, and determine reasoned judgement relevance and irrelevance its reliability distinguish between obvious recognise and challenge subtle fact and opinion distinguish between fact and differentiate between fact, or fundamental assumptions, opinion as well as source and opinion and reasoned judgement notice obvious contradictions, permeating value orientations evidence seek clarifications and make recognise that information and ideologies simple predictions recognise obvious providers’ value orientations recognise that the selection and inconsistencies, omissions, and ideologies would affect the draw simple but logical deployment of information/facts assumptions, stereotypes and perspectives or judgement of conclusions not contradictory are affected by personal biases sources to given data and evidence perspectives formulate appropriate questions, recognise and challenge draw warranted conclusions, and make reasonable stereotypes, emotional factors, predict and assess probable predictions and hypotheses propaganda and fallacies consequences and make draw logical conclusions based draw and test conclusions as reasoned judgement in reading, on adequate data and evidence, well as hypotheses, identify writing and speech and make predictions about reasonable alternatives and apply appropriate thinking skills consequences predict probable consequences to evaluate and reflect on their admit their own limitations, thinking process and suggest shortcomings or errors of the ways for improvement thinking process
Critical Thinking Skills Critical thinking is drawing out meaning from available data or statements, and examining and questioning accuracy and credibility in order to establish one’s views and evaluate the arguments put forward by oneself and others. Key Stage 1 Key Stage 2 Key Stage 3 Key Stage 4 Students will learn to extract, classify and organise information identify and express main ideas, problems or core issues understand straightforward cause-and-effect relationships distinguish between obvious fact and opinion notice obvious contradictions, seek clarifications and make simple predictions draw simple but logical conclusions not contradictory to given data and evidence Students will learn to make inductions/inferences from sources other sources to determine the reliability of a source understand the concepts of relevance and irrelevance distinguish between fact and opinion as well as source and evidence recognise obvious inconsistencies, omissions, assumptions, stereotypes and biases formulate appropriate questions, and make reasonable predictions and hypotheses draw logical conclusions based on adequate data and evidence, and make predictions about consequences Students will to identify the issue at stake clarify and define key words to guide thinking compare information from different sources, note contrasts and similarities, and determine its reliability differentiate between fact, opinion and reasoned judgement recognise that information providers’ value orientations and ideologies would affect the perspectives or judgement of sources recognise and challenge stereotypes, emotional factors, propaganda and fallacies draw and test conclusions as well as hypotheses, identify reasonable alternatives and predict probable consequences admit their own limitations, shortcomings or errors of the thinking process Students will learn to differentiate between real and stated issues, and accurate representations, and relevant and irrelevant evidence differentiate between sophisticated fact, opinion and reasoned judgement recognise and challenge subtle or fundamental assumptions, permeating value orientations and ideologies recognise that the selection and deployment of information/facts are affected by personal perspectives draw warranted conclusions, predict and assess probable consequences and make reasoned judgement in reading, writing and speech apply appropriate thinking skills to evaluate and reflect on their thinking process and suggest ways for improvement
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