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Peer reviewedWales, Charles E.; And Others – Educational Leadership, 1986
Defines education's new paradigm as schooling based on decision making, the critical thinking skills serving it, and the knowledge base supporting it. Outlines a model decision-making process using a hypothetical breakfast problem; a late riser chooses goals, generates ideas, develops an action plan, and implements and evaluates it. (4 references)…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Critical Thinking, Decision Making Skills, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedQuellmalz, Edys S. – Educational Leadership, 1985
Recent advances in theory and research provide a basis for defining higher-order thinking skills and for designing tests of such skills. (MCG)
Descriptors: Classification, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Tests, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedSternberg, Robert J.; Baron, Joan B. – Educational Leadership, 1985
The state of Connecticut has introduced a fourth-grade mastery test that assesses thinking skills. The test was developed cooperatively by the state's Department of Education, a testing corporation, and several cognitive psychologists; several alternative models of thinking were synthesized to produce a theoretical foundation for the test. (MCG)
Descriptors: Classification, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Tests
