The intellectually disciplined process of

Discussion about Critical thinking 
Why is critical thinking so crucial? What is it? Critical thinking is "the intellectually disciplined process of" according to the Critical Thinking Community. As a basis for belief and action, actively and skillfully conceiving, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, or evaluating data derived from or generated by observation, experience, reflection, reasoning, or communication (Scriven & Paul, 2007, p. 1). But, Kerr (2022) expresses a different viewpoint by characterizing this term as undefinable and pointing out that a certain action will not help to create it. In some cases, students have problems with critical thinking to understand the true meaning and how to evaluate it. As a graduate student, I applied an activity named “Question of the day” to that I gave my students open-ended questions in Google Classroom. Students added their answers and then replied to others. The outcome of activity showed better results in that approximately 75% of my students were aware of critical thinking. While I consider "critical thinking", and "problem-solving" to be essential concepts in the educational system, they now have very specific connotations in the context of the contemporary classroom. I can suggest that problem-based assignments could be instructive, involve questions, be useful, etc.

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   Kerr, P. (2022) Doing critical thinking to others. Adaptive Learning in ELT
   
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   Scriven & Paul,( 2007),What is Critical Thinking?.