Critical Thinking: Resources for Teaching and Assessing

The following resources have been developed by Isabelle Matzkin for teaching and assessing our Critical Thinking Essential Learning Outcome.

1. Main Points about Critical Thinking
2. A simple rubric for evaluating critical thinking: This rubric was updated in August, 2019. It can be used for assessing critical thinking at the program or course level, as well as the institutional level. If you are using it in a class, please adjust it for your purposes.
3. An exercise to help students understand fallacies and their role in critical thinking appraisals
4. A standardized assessment of critical thinking to be used with expository or persuasive passages: This can also be used in class to practice critical thinking.
5. Sample selections to practice one’s critical thinking skills on with model analyses