critical thinking
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4.1
- noun
- /ˈkrɪtɪkəl ˈθɪŋkɪŋ/
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pensamiento crítico
- Developing strong critical thinking skills is essential for making informed decisions in everyday life.
- critical thinking skills
- stimulate critical thinking
- problem solving and critical thinking
We are not developing critical thinking as much as we should.
- We are not developing critical thinking as much as we should.
- It is very hard to define what critical thinking means.
- And they are basically shutting down critical thinking by using techniques like this.
- All these form the basis of critical thinking.
- It's just like there's no logic or or critical thinking involved in any of this stuff.
- Their brain shifts, their critical thinking literally goes offline and their fight or flight takes over.
- It's an anti intellectual approach and it discourages critical thinking.
- I mean, that's, that's the critical thinking that's that's lacking.
- The first skill is critical thinking or self criticism.
- Motivation, good, good critical thinking, critical thinking, decision making.
- And in the Fayetteville State University channel, those critical thinking videos just took off.
- To know what may undercut our critical thinking because it speaks to what we want.
Examples
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Educators emphasize the importance of critical thinking to help students analyze information effectively.
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Step 7 is the final step and is significant in terms of students' developing critical thinking skills.
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We are not developing critical thinking as much as we should.
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We really encourage critical thinking across the entire team.
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I believe there are some people who have a gift for critical thinking.
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The problem seems to be a lack of critical thinking skills.
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The emphasis was on critical thinking and writing.
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Teachers who provide students with such extended practice in critical thinking will train effective thinkers.
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In-service training in critical thinking should be designed and based on the needs of teachers.
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Explicit instruction can improve children's ability to do certain kinds of critical thinking and reasoning.
Academic text (1990)
Synonyms
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2.8
A decision about how good someone's work or skills are
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3.7
A careful decision about how good or valuable something is
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3.9
A way of thinking in a clear, logical order to form a conclusion
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5.1
A close study of a text or work of art to judge its strengths and weaknesses
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3.7
A careful use of reason to solve problems
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6.3
A careful step-by-step check of information to decide how useful or true it is
A way of looking at a problem by breaking it into smaller parts to see how they work together
Antonyms
- Formal
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8.2
A belief that feelings, faith, or the unconscious mind matter more than logic
How Analytical
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'objective analysis and evaluation' is directly and compositionally derived from 'critical' (evaluative/analytical) plus 'thinking' (deliberate use of the mind). This adjective+noun combination follows a common, cross‑linguistically familiar pattern, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will very likely infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Critical thinking comes from the image of a careful judge who looks closely at facts, where critical means finding faults and thinking means using your mind to compare ideas. So, it means 'thinking carefully' to make a fair decision.