COMM 02

• It accepts ideas without evaluation, relying on passive learning and avoiding analysis.

  Non-critical thinking
• It involves breaking down a text to understand its structure and meaning

  Analyzing
• Means assessing the quality and credibility of information, judging the persuasiveness of the content

  Evaluating
• Objective and variable information, and readers distinguish them from opinions

  Facts
• It involves breaking down complex ideas into their simplest forms. It is the first step when tackling a problem or making a decision

  Analytical
• Means being willing to explore the unknown, experience new stimuli, and accept uncertainty

  Curiosity
• It is assessing situations and information without allowing personal biases, emotions, or opinions to influence judgment.

  Objectivity
• It is the quality of downplaying one's contribution in a successful task while giving credit to others

  Humility
• It is about trusting one's own abilities and reasoning skills.

  Confidence
• It is the "ongoing, voluntary, and self-motivated" pursuit of knowledge for either personal or professional reasons.

  Lifelong learning
• Critical thinkers don't allow their logic and reasoning to become clouded by illusions and misconceptions


  Aware of common thinking
• To be able to see the bigger picture, one needs to have an open mind

  Openmindedness
• It is the ability to draw conclusion based on the information you have

  Inference
• Figuring what information is the most relevant

  Determining relevance
• It is examining and reflecting on your thoughts, feelings, actions, and motivations

  Introspection
• Questioning long-established business practices and refusing to adhere to traditional methods

  challenge the status quo
• involves rejecting standardized ideas to think from new perspectives and approaches in decision-making

  Creativity
• Critical thinkers balance empathy with objectivity

  Compassion
• Skill in expressing their thoughts and ideas clearly

  Communication
• Critical thinking or non-critical thinking: deep focus on analyzing data and understanding implications

  Critical thinking
• Critical thinking or non-critical thinking: focus on gathering information without exploring implications

  Non-critical thinking
• Critical thinking or non-critical thinking: Superficial look at data without exploring all angles

  Non-critical thinking
• Critical thinking or non-critical thinking: Requires thorough analysis, considering all sides before concluding

  Critical thinking
• Levels of thinking (2001): Tier 1

  Remember
• Recalling information from memory


  Remembering
• Levels of thinking (2001): Tier 2

  Understand
• Grasping the meaning of information

  Understanding
• Levels of thinking (2001): Tier 3

  Apply
• Using acquired knowledge in a new context

  Applying
• Levels of thinking (2001): Tier 4

  Analysis
• Breaking down information into parts and examining relationships

  Analyzing
• Levels of thinking (2001): Tier 5

  Evaluate
• Making judgments about the value or worth of information

  Evaluating
• Levels of thinking (2001): Tier 6

  Create
• Synthesizing information to generate new ideas or solutions

  Creating
• "essence of reading"

  Comprehension
• the act of understanding what you are reading

  Reading comprehension
• Surface-level understanding of what the text explicitly states

  Literal comprehension
• Literal comprehension involves grasping explicit information directly stated in the text


  Factual understanding
• Students focus on specific details, events, or facts presented in the passage

  Textual Details