University Learning Goals |
Critical Thinking
Critical Thinking
EIU graduates question, examine, evaluate, and respond to problems or arguments by:
- Asking essential questions and engaging diverse perspectives.
- Seeking and gathering data, information, and knowledge from experience, texts, graphics, and media.
- Understanding, interpreting, and critiquing relevant data, information, and knowledge.
- Synthesizing and integrating data, information, and knowledge to infer and create new insights
- Anticipating, reflecting upon, and evaluating implications of assumptions, arguments, hypotheses, and conclusions.
- Creating and presenting defensible expressions, arguments, positions, hypotheses, and proposals.
| Resources | |
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| Workshop video | Click here. |
| PowerPoint | Click here |
| Newsletter | Click here. |
| Bloom's Revised Taxonomy | Click here. |
| Thinking Skills and Key Words | Click here. |
| Critical Thinking Assignment Design | Click here. |
| Critical Thinking Sample Exam | Click here. |
| Thinking Skills and Key Words | Click here. |
| Critical Thinking Exam Guidelines | Click here. |
| Critical Thinking Rubrics | |
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| AAC&U | Click here. |
| Kansas State | Click here. |
| Minnesota-Duluth | Click here. |
| Washington State | Click here. |






