Key points from reading
- differences critical thinking skills from low-order learning outcomes e.g. rote learning type activities
- includes synthesizing, analyzing, reasoning, comprehending, application and evaluation
- "Bloom's aim is to promote higher forms of thinking such as above rather than just teaching remembering facts
- The lower-order thinking skills involve memorization, while higher-order thinking requires understanding and applying that knowledge
- Analysis- students use their own judgment to begin analyzing the knowledge they have learned e.g. analyse each statement to decide whether it is fact or opinion
- Synthesis- students infer relationships of sources of information, putting new information together to create new meaning e.g. what alternative would you suggest? what changes would you make? what could you invent?
- Evaluation- students making judgments about the value of ideas, items, and materials e.g. evaluate the school rules and decide which are the most necessary and least necessary
