Critical Thinking
Students interpret, analyze, evaluate, and infer from their own thinking and that of others in order to form well-reasoned and
informed conclusions.
Class/Assignment:
Skill Component
Interpret:
To comprehend and express the
meaning or significance of
communication or representation.
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assignment or describe the
part of the assignment here>.
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unused skill components or
levels.
Analyze:
To identify the inferential
relationships between beliefs,
opinions, experiences, judgments
or statements of fact.
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assignment or describe the
part of the assignment here>.
Evaluate:
To assess the credibility of
statements of belief, opinion,
experience, judgment or
statement of fact.
OR
To assess the strength of the
inferential relationship between
beliefs, opinions, judgments or
statement of fact.
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Exemplary
Interpretation is consistent,
complete, concise and accurate
with little room for
improvement.
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Identification of the intended
and actual inferential
relationships is consistent,
complete, concise and accurate
with little room for
improvement.
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Evaluation of credibility and the
logical strength of inferential
relationships is consistent,
complete, concise and accurate
with little room for
improvement
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Does Not
Proficient Developing No Evidence
Apply
Interpretation is largely Interpretation was attempted but
No Evidence of
consistent, complete, concise largely inconsistent, incomplete,
an attempt at
and accurate with some room unclear and/or largely
interpretation.
for improvement. unsupported.
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Identification of inferential
Identification of inferential No evidence of
relationships is largely
relationships is largely identification of
consistent, complete, concise
inconsistent, incomplete, inferential
and accurate with some areas in
inaccurate and/or unsupported. relationships.
need of improvement.
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Evaluation of credibility and Evaluation of credibility and
No evidence of
logical strength is consistent, logical strength is largely
an evaluation of
complete, concise and accurate inconsistent, incomplete,
credibility or
with little room for unclear and/or largely
logical strength.
improvement. unsupported.
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 Critical Thinking
Students interpret, analyze, evaluate, and infer from their own thinking and that of others in order to form well-reasoned and
informed conclusions.
Class/Assignment:
Does Not
Skill Component Exemplary Proficient Developing No Evidence
Apply
assignment or describe the
here>
part of the assignment here>.

Infer:
To form reasonable hypotheses,
conjectures or conclusions from
given information.
OR
To offer justification (in the form
of evidence or reasons) from
which hypotheses, conjectures or
conclusions are reasonably
formed or drawn.
Identification of reasonable
conclusions, conjecture and
hypothesizing are complete,
concise, consistent and accurate.
Identification of reasonable
Identification of reasonable No evidence of
conclusions, conjecture and
conclusions, conjecture and the actual or
hypothesizing are largely
hypothesizing are largely intended
complete, concise, consistent
incomplete, inconsistent, inferences have
and accurate with little room for
unclear and/or lacking support. been drawn.
improvement.

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assignment or describe the <operationalize here> <operationalize here> <operationalize here>
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part of the assignment here>.

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