aspects of critical thinking - Answers unreflective thinker, novice or beginning thinker, advanced
thinker
unreflective thinker - Answers someone who is careless, undisciplined, passive, conforming, self
-centered, and unfair in thought
novice or beginning thinker - Answers one who is active, persistent, and courageous-- someone
who is empathetic to differing points of view. You rely on questioning and explaining to begin to
build a routine, consistent practice of critical thinking
advanced thinker - Answers a person who is autonomous, trusts reason, has humility and a
sense of justice and is consistently fair
fair-mindedness - Answers "Entails the predisposition to consider all relevant viewpoints equally,
without reference to one's own feelings or selfish interests, or the feelings or selfish interests of
one's friends, community or nation"
declarative knowledge - Answers is possessing specific information about something. Example:
remembering and understanding your name, your social security number, causes of the civil war
Procedural knowledge - Answers when you know how to do something, such as read and add
fractions
conditional knowledge - Answers knowing when and why to use particular strategies. When you
are aware of your own learning strengths and weaknesses and adjust your studying accordingly.
Example: test or project
Blooms taxonomy - Answers remember, understand, apply, analyze, evaluate, create.
Academic Listening - Answers is the ability to capture and understand complicated information
that is presented orally.
Guided notes - Answers are teacher prepared handouts the outline or map lectures, but leave
"blank" space for key concepts, facts, definitions, etc. As the lecture progresses, you then fill in
the spaces with content.
Cornell notes - Answers page is divided into three sections: The note-taking section, the cue
column, and the summary area. Example: Best used in lectured classes.
T- notes - Answers Created by Archie David and Elvis Clark in 1996. A way to organize and learn
different types of lecture information. It's also a method to record, revise, and review notes.
synchronous communication - Answers Distance education using technology. Meaning that you
and the instructor communicate together at the same time.