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Potts, Bonnie – 1994
Critical thinking skills figure prominently among the goals for education proposed by educational researchers, parents, and employers. This digest discusses the skills related to critical thinking and three specific strategies for teaching these skills. The first, Building Categories, is an inductive reasoning tool that helps students categorize…
Descriptors: Classification, Critical Thinking, Educational Environment, Educational Objectives