Table 1 Consensus list of critical thinking cognitive skills and sub-skills (Facione 1990)
Skill | Sub-Skills |
|---|---|
1. Interpretation | categorization, decoding significance, clarifying meaning |
2. Analysis | examining ideas, identifying arguments, analyzing arguments |
3. Evaluation | assessing claims, assessing arguments |
4. Inference | querying evidence, conjecturing alternatives, drawing conclusions |
5. Explanation | stating results, justifying procedures, presenting arguments |
6. Self-Regulation | self-examination, self-correction |