...Critical Thinking Application The intention of this essay is to give an explanation on critical thinking. This essay as well will incorporate the significance and benefits of one�s critical thinking capability. This paper will explain a comprehensive understanding that can benefit from a critical thinker and the possible results. The closing of this paper will explain the qualities of a critical thinker and the significance of it. Thinking clearly and logically is the ability of a critical thinker. It contains the skill to take on thoughtful and self sufficient thinking. It is difficult to imagine any area where the ability to think clearly is not needed. Yet, few of us have ever received explicit instructions in how to improve the way we think. Traditionally, our schools have required students to learn make, decisions, analyze arguments, and solve problems without ever teaching them to do so (Halpern, 2005). Collecting information is not a matter of critical thinking. Someone with an immaculate recollection and someone who identifies many details are not automatically excellent at critical thinking. A critical thinker is capable to reason consequences as of what they recognize and they recognize how to build use of information to work out problems and search for appropriate foundations of information to enlighten them. We tend to think critical thinking as a cold, scientific or objective way of looking at things, but this is inaccurate (Wells). A critical thinking situation...
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...Mondays and Wednesdays: 9:45am – 10:35am and by appointment COURSE DESCRIPTION The primary objective of this course is to teach good reasoning, which in turn will help you make important decisions about what to believe and how to act. The core of your critical thinking skills is your ability to detect, generate, and evaluate reasons given in support of some conclusion. This conclusion might be a new belief, a change in plans, or a confirmation of the old belief. The technical term for a set of reasons plus their intended conclusion is “argument.” Thus the central topic of this course is argumentation. Critical thinking skills are not peculiar to philosophy but are applicable to a variety of academic subjects. Moreover, critical thinking skills are crucial to the fulfillment of the responsibilities you have in virtue of your roles as a citizen, parent, child, employee, and consumer. To develop critical thinking skills, students will be expected to participate actively in class activities and discussions. Time in class will be devoted in the main to practice, not to lecture. In short, you will learn by doing. REQUIRED TEXTS Authors: David R. Morrow and Anthony Weston Title: A Workbook for Arguments: A Complete Course in Critical Thinking Edition: 2011 Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. ISBN-13: 978-1603845496 Additional readings will be made available on Blackboard. Abbreviated lecture notes will be made available on Blackboard. ATTENDANCE Attendance is required and will constitute...
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...CHEATING HELPS STUDENTS TO LEARN Every action has a consequence, whether it is good or bad. The choices you make can follow you the rest of your life. Cheating refers to an immoral way of achieving a goal. Cheating is an issue that affects many students at one time or another throughout their education. There are many different ways to cheat: copying homework, looking over at a peers test, plagiarizing, and so on. Cheating behaviors are becoming increasingly pervasive and frequent in academic context (McCabe & Trevino, 1997; McCabe, Trevino & Butterfield, 2001), with grave repercussions on the main mission of any educational institution: to promote the acquisition of actual knowledge and competences in students (Whitley & Keith-Spiegel, 2001). Longitudinal research in school environments reported an increase in cheating over the last decades, and a decrease in individuals’ perceived severity of dishonest behavior (Murdock, Hale & Weber, 2001). Today’s high school and college students openly admit that academic cheating has become both pervasive and expected. As many as 80% to 90% of students cheat prior to graduating from high school, and a similar percentage cheat during their undergraduate years (Davis, Grover, Becker, & McGregor, 1992; McCabe & Trevino, 1997). Many students admit to cheating only once; however, for a substantial minority, the behavior is repetitive (Hollinger & Lanza-Kaduce, 1996; McCabe & Trevino, 1997). Moreover, cheating rates have...
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...CRITICAL THINKING http://www.umich.edu/~elements/probsolv/strategy/crthink.htm Critical Thinking is the process we use to reflect on assess and judge the assumption underlying our own and others ideas and efforts. Critical thinking involves calling into question the assumptions underlying our customary, habitual ways of thinking and acting and then being ready to think and act differently on the basis of the critical questioning. Components of Critical Thinking 1. Identifying and challenging assumptions. 2. Recognizing the importance of context. 3. Imagining and exploring alternatives. 4. Developing reflective skepticism. Creative Thinkers * Consider rejecting standardized formats for problem solving. * Have an interest in a wide range of related and divergent fields. * Take multiple perspectives on a problem. * Use trial-and-error methods in their experimentation. * Have a future orientation. * Have self-confidence and trust in their own judgment. Critical Thinking Involves * Recognizing underlying assumptions. * Scrutinizing arguments. * Judging ideas. * Judging the rationality of these justifications by comparing them to a range of varying interpretations and prospective. * Providing positive as well as negative appraisal. THE SIX TYPES OF SOCRATIC QUESTIONS Due to the rapid addition of new information and the advancement of science and technology that occur almost daily, an engineer must constantly...
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...dismayed upon hearing those words from the teacher? Homework has long been a way to supplement students’ learning outside the classroom. This has also kept students busy every night, staring at their computer screens studying or researching about their assigned school work. Homework, in a way, is a good way of maintaing the knowledge students gained from school, but is it really the most effective way of providing supplemental studies? Most studies have shown that homework may be more supplemental than being detrimental to a student’s learning. On one perspective, it has been proven that assigning homework is beneficial to a student’s performance in school. Evidence has been found that homework is an effective supplemental form of learning, and “can impact positively on the retention and understanding of knowledge and can improve study skills...and demonstrate that learning can take place outside of formal schooling,” (qtd. in Department of Education and the Arts 7). This shows that studying should not just be confined to the walls of the classroom, and that after-school learning is vital to reinforce what has been taught by the teacher to the students. Without this reinforcement, students might easily forget the concepts learned in the classroom. Thus, this would result to a poor evaluation performance. This is especially true to students who do not pay attention during Evaristo 2 class time. Because of homework, they would be forced to study the lesson, and soon enough...
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...Narrative Handout 11 Unit 1 Assignment 1: What Would You Do? 12 Unit 2 Journal 1: Personal Narrative 13 Unit 2 Journal 1: Personal Narrative Handout 15 Unit 2 Journal 2: Civic Narrative 19 Unit 2 Journal 2: Civic Narrative Handout 20 Unit 2 Journal 3: Article Response 22 Unit 2 Assignment 1: What Would You Do? 23 Unit 2 Assignment 2: Declaration of Independence and Public Safety 25 Unit 3 Journal 1: Car Commercials 26 Unit 3 Journal 2: Personal Narrative 27 Unit 3 Journal 2: Personal Narrative Handout 28 Unit 3 Journal 3: Civic Narrative 31 Unit 3 Journal 3: Civic Narrative Handout 32 Unit 3 Journal 4: Taste vs. Judgment 34 Unit 3 Presentation 1: What Would You Do? 35 Unit 3 Assignment 1: Habits That Hinder Thinking 36 Unit 4 Journal 1: Invention Exercise 37 Unit 4 Journal 1: SWOT Analysis Template 38 Unit 4 Journal 2: Personal Narrative 39 Unit 4 Journal 2: Personal Narrative Handout 41 Unit 4 Journal 3: Civic Narrative 43 Unit 4 Journal 3: Civic Narrative Handout 44 Unit 4 Assignment 1: What Would You Do? 46 Unit 4 Assignment 2: Invention White Paper 47 Unit 5 Journal 1: Personal Narrative 48 Unit 5 Journal 1: Personal Narrative Handout 49 Unit 5 Journal 2: Civic Narrative 51 Unit 5 Journal 2: Civic Narrative Handout 53 Unit 5 Assignment 1: What Would You Do? 55 Unit 6 Journal 1: Errors of Validity 57 Unit 6 Journal 2: Personal Narrative 59 Unit 6 Journal 2: Personal Narrative Handout 60 Unit 6 Journal 3: Civic Narrative...
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... Gen/200 3/1/2015 Susie Holiday Continuing Academic Success The end is near to my first class at the University of Phoenix. As I continue on with my education, I would like to have great academic success. Academic success can be achieved by being aware of one’s goals, the writing process and the importance of critical thinking skills. By knowing these things, I believe my academic success will be achievable. Goals Setting goals in life is the key to my success. I feel that without goals the task you do in life has little to no purpose. “A goal is whatever an individual is striving to accomplish in their life”(Alispahić, n.d., p. 197). There is a lot I would like to achieve in life; that is why setting goals makes so much sense. Also having goals works as a motivator and encourages me to have a commitment. The bigger the goal the more fulfillment I will have in accomplishing them. (Alispahić, n.d.). My educational goals are that I finish my bachelor's degree with a GPA of 3.0 or above. After that, I would like to move on and obtain a master's degree. Also, I plan to stop procrastinating when it comes to my homework and studying. Procrastination is something I have struggled with and realize it will not help me to achieve academic success. Some career goals would be to find a closer job while I am finishing my bachelor's degree. When I get that degree, the aim is to get a job in my field and gain experience while I am getting my masters...
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...Pawitra C. A Critical Review of “Developing Critical Thinking and Assessment in music classrooms” As many American students have a difficulty to reach a goal of testing standard makes music teachers are required to add the reading and writing skills in their classrooms. Maria Stefanova has provided some options to solve this problem in the article called “Developing Critical Thinking and Assessment in music classrooms”. It was published in May, 2011 by American String Teacher. In the article, she presents five classroom strategies to fill the gap between music and literacy classes. The first strategy is a prior step of the class which requires teachers to survey the students about their interest and background, while the second one could be done at the end of the class as an “exit ticket”. The next two are tactics which conceal the knowledge behind the performances and inviting a musician as a guest to classroom. The last one is to ask students to record their homework constantly. The author says that “[these strategies are] not only strengthening music instruction, but also to develop active thinking and assessment tools in the music classroom” (Stefanova, 2001). Most of the strategies are agreeable, however, I have a different point of view in some issues. Maria (2011) says that it is important for teachers to know more about their students’ interest and background to help them improve their skills, especially for new students. It is better to use written form of survey...
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...The Ohio State University Autumn 2010 Economics 201 – Principles of Macroeconomics TR 2:00 – 3:18, 100 Independence Hall Please do not make travel plans that conflict with final exam date and time. Alternative arrangements are extremely difficult FINAL EXAM: Thursday, December 9, 1:30, Same Place as Lecture MIDTERM 1: Thursday, October 7, 2:00, Same Place as Lecture MIDTERM 2: Tuesday, October 26, 2:00, Same Place as Lecture MIDTERM 3: Tuesday, November 16, 2:00, Same Place as Lecture Textbook: Required: Principles of Microeconomics, 18e, McConnell, McGraw-Hill, ISBN: 0077354230 (or loose leaf - cheaper: 00773441678). Study Guide: Highly recommend student study guide: 0077341678. Instructor: Alan Osman, 411 Arps Hall, Phone: 247-0092, E-mail: osman.1@osu.edu Instructor Resume: Brief resume on Carmen Instructor SEI: Student Evaluation of Instruction for various courses taught by the instructor, 2007-2010, available on Carmen Office Hours: TR: 4:00-5:00 (no appointment needed), other times by appointment. Communicating With the Instructor: In this day of instant communication, the urge to communicate with the instructor at any time of day or night and expect an immediate response is very tempting. Please note that if the information you seek by emailing this instructor is available on this syllabus, on Carmen, or was provided in class, or available from the course TA, the inquiry may not receive priority, if at...
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...interdisciplinary approach, we will closely examine the legal and ethical environment of business using a wide variety of materials ranging from the textbook to news reports. In this respect, we will attempt to construct a framework wherein socially responsible business decisions can be made, integrating your current knowledge and experience with content in business strategy, global perspectives, and ethical/legal dimensions, necessary to succeed in the global business arena. Stated differently, you will address the following: • Social responsibilities, legal and ethical duties of business • Forces within and without business which impact management tasks, business operations and stakeholder expectations • Analytical skills, critical...
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...NT1230 ------------------------------------------------- Client-Server Networking I ------------------------------------------------- Homework Assignments Name: Ernani Narag Week 6 Homework: Due Week 7 Assignment 1: Ticket Escalation Assignment Requirements Respond to the following email, making recommended solutions and explaining the rationale for your recommendations: ---- FROM: Manager TO: Systems Administrator RE: Support Prioritization I am receiving complaints from department supervisors that their support issues are not being addressed in a timely manner. We need a ticket escalation policy to ensure business priorities are met, while managing end-user expectations. Please draft a policy describing how support requests will be prioritized. In addition to normal troubleshooting prioritization, please address the following departments: customer service, sales, accounting and marketing, prioritized in that order. How can we better manage these business requirements? ---- Submission Requirements Address all of the concerns of the manager and provide a recommendation. Microsoft Word. 1-2 pages. Self-Assessment Checklist I made recommendations to address all of the concerns in the email. | * | I explained my reasoning. | * | I composed a professional response. | * | I used critical thinking. | * | I have followed the submission requirements:File Format: Microsoft Word (.doc /.docx)Length: 1-2 pagesFont:...
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...twenty four hours and still have time to spend with their family? I have learned in order to make sure I have enough time during the day for all my responsibilities as well as time for my family, I must utilize proper time management skills. One of the first steps in proper time management is creating a strategy where goals are planned out. I first need to determine what my daily goals are and create a schedule prioritizing them by order of importance. According to Time-Management-Guide.com, “proper time management starts with prioritizing goals”. Once I create my daily list of goals I can determine which goals will have the most priority. For goals that must be carried out day to day, an example being helping my children complete homework requirements, they would have the highest priority. Goals which occur once or twice weekly, for instance taking out the garbage, these goals would receive the lowest priority. Having a family schedule posted in a common area like my kitchen or a designated location in my home would also help in managing my time. Utilizing a systematic process for managing my time would eliminate the possibility of wasting valuable...
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...Running head: SENSORY PERCEPTIONS Assignment #1 Sensory Perceptions Mary D. L. Allen Critical Thinking Dr. Anne Keyes January 23, 2013 Strayer University In this assignment, this paper will take a look at sensory data and the accuracy or inaccuracy it presents. This will include the reasons in which someone believes in the accuracy of sensory information. It will consider and explain three factors that furnish sensory data to our senses. Finally, the paper will describe the character of nature and nurture to point out how to understand and evaluate sensory data. Basically, sensory perception is defined as an individual’s view of senses sent to the brain in order to help the individual make a decision. Three reasons for believing in the accuracy or inaccuracy of sensory information are perception, interpretation, and knowledge (Anonymous, 2013). Perception is when someone walks in the kitchen to put down bags of groceries and sets a bag on the stove which appears to off. It is off and there would be no reason to believe the information to be inaccurate. However, the stove was recently used and the burners are still hot, which causes the grocery bag to catch on fire. The eyes are deceiving and allowed an individual to put bags of groceries on a hot stove. All this means is someone did not analyze the situation clearly and make the correct decision. It is a matter of how the individual perceived...
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...calculator Text and Connect Plus Options • Hardcover (including Connect Plus plus ebook access) o $303 at the Bookstore (resale value approximately $137 at the Booskstore) • Ebook and Connect Plus o $105 – online purchase o Valid for both semesters of this course • Connect Plus only o $76 – online purchase o No ebook or text material included o You can use this option if you have purchased a 2nd hand text • Looseleaf Text o $40 “upgrade” – you must have purchased one of the Connect Plus options o Online purchase through Connect Plus o This is a black & white, 3-hole punched, loose-leaf copy of the full text Registration with Connect is required. Your homework will be completed and submitted via McGraw-Hill’s Connect website. If you have not bought a text/package yet and are not sure if you will remain in this course, you can still register with CONNECT to do your first assignment by selecting the free trial option. Connect access class web page:...
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...The dictionary defines critical thinking as a “disciplined thinking that is clear, rational, open-minded, and informed by evidence.” So, we must ask ourselves how we obtain critical thinking. Are there steps that one must take? Is there only one-way to reach critical thinking? Is this something that can be taught to another person or explained? Do ethics and critical thinking ever intertwine? With so many questions revolving around this subject, I am going to use the rest of this paper to delve into the hard questions. We are going to explore the steps of the critical thinking process in detail while applying those steps to my personal blind spot and preference in the ethical lens spectrum and we will discuss the effects of ethics in comparison to professional and societal environments. There are six basic steps to the critical thinking process. Our text, Becoming a Master Student, relies on psychologist Benjamin Bloom to explain the steps. 1) Remembering 2) Understanding 3) Applying 4) Analyzing 5) Evaluating 6) Creating. (Ellis, 1976, p. 205). As we start to form the initial research behind the idea or paper these steps become very important in narrowing the field of vision and applying these thoughts to real life. We need to remember what we are reading or researching. I personally struggle with remembering some of the small details. I can get lost in the big picture of the project. We then need to understand what we are reading; the best way to...
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