The five main theories about how critical thinking skills are acquired are Formal Training, Theoretical Instruction, Situated Cognition, Practice, and Evolutionary Psychology. The most credible theory is Practice.
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How are critical thinking skills acquired? Five perspectives
Posted in Argument Mapping, Critical Thinking, Education, Expertise, Reasoning, Teaching, Thinking on October 20, 2010 | 5 Comments »
On Being Thoroughly Evidence-Based
Posted in Decision Making, Evidence, Evidence-based decision, Expertise, Medical decision making on September 6, 2010 | 2 Comments »
A favorite Dilbert cartoon from a few years back has one character at a restaurant smugly insisting to his dining partner that he would never be so stupid as to provide his credit card details online. Meanwhile he is paying the bill by handing his credit card to a waiter who disappears with it, supposedly only [...]
Enhancing Directors’ Decision Expertise
Posted in Boards, Decision Making, Expertise on February 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The central responsibility, for Boards and for individual Directors, is to make good decisions. What can Directors do to improve their decision making ability? First, it is important to understand that decision making is a complex cognitive skill. It is not an innate talent that some people were granted at birth. Nor is it something [...]
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