Critical and Creative Thinking

Critical Thinking

process of reflecting on our assessment and judging the assumption underlying our own ideas and efforts

Creative Thinking

process of developing unique ideas, useful and worthy of further elaboration

Critical Thinking

process of actively and skilfully conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and/or evaluating information gathered a guide to belief and action

Creative Thinking

ability to generate new ideas by combining, changing, or reapplying existing ideas

Critical Thinkers

• Recognize underlying assumptions.

• Scrutinize arguments.

•Judge ideas.

• Judge the rationality of these justifications by comparing them to varied interpretations

• Provide positive as well as negative appraisal.

Critical Thinkers

Characteristics of Critical Thinkers

1. admits a lack of knowledge

2. not afraid to ask questions

3. weighs statements and arguments

4. examines beliefs or assumptions and weighs them against facts

5. listens carefully before giving a feedback

6. looks at a problem in multiple

perspectives

7. supports opinion with data

8. honest with himself

Characteristics of Critical Thinkers

9. overcomes confusion instead of wallowing

in limbo

10. looks for answers

11. looks for connections among details

12. takes time to produce many ideas

13. eager to learn from others

Characteristics of Critical Thinkers

Creative Thinkers

• Consider rejecting standardized formats for problem solving.

•Have an interest in a wide range of related and divergent fields.

•Take multiple perspectives on a problem.

•Use trial-and-error methods in their experimentation.

•Have self-confidence and trust in their own judgment.

•Have a future orientation.

Creative Thinkers

Characteristics of Creative Thinkers

1. make associations between seemingly unrelated ideas

2. rearranges elements of thoughts to create new ideas

3. thinks of different ideas or solutions to problems

4. display intellectual playfulness, fantasize, and imagine

Characteristics of Creative Thinkers

5. concerned with adaptation, improvement, modification of existing ideas

6. unusual sense of humor and see humors others do not see

7. do not fear of being different

Characteristics of Creative Thinkers

8. asks many questions

9. challenges experts in the field

10. comes up with unexpected, futuristic, bizarre and even silly answers or solutions

References

• Plata, Sterling M., Ph. D. et.al. (2006). Keys to Critical Reading and Writing 1. 2nd Ed. Biñan, Laguna: Trailblaizer Publications.

• http://www.engin.umich.edu/~cre/probsolv/strategy/crit-n-creat.htm• http://www4.uwsp.edu/education/lwilson/creativ/traits.htm• http://www.virtualsalt.com/crebook1.htm