Critical Thinking Article Analysis 2022

Running head: CRITICAL THINKING: ARTICLE ANALYSIS
CRITICAL THINKING: ARTICLE ANALYSIS
Name of the student
Name of the university
Author Note

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The respective paper is a critical introspection, analysis and interpretation of the
respective article “Real world outcomes and critical thinking: Differential analysis by academic
major and gender” (Franco & Almeida, 2015). The paper discusses the background, objectives
and core questions of the research executed in the respective article and also argues weather the
thesis statement in the article has significant grounds or not, discussing precisely about the
strengths and the weaknesses of the article. The overall value and contributions of the article is
further introspected and analyzed in the respective paper.
Critical Analysis
Background
The article “Real world outcomes and critical thinking: Differential analysis by academic
major and gender” lucidly discusses about the behavioral aspects of the two genders (male and
female), their critical thinking capabilities from real world outcomes depending upon the
academic major they have opted (STEM or Humanities). The article clearly tries to present a
thesis outcome about the critical thinking pattern of both the sexes according to their capabilities
regarding their choices of academic persuasion.
Objectives
The objectives of the research is to understand the implications of association between
critical thinking and real life, to be more specific, the impact of critical thinking on real life, the
Real World Outcomes (RWO) which pragmatically measures an extensive range of troublesome
behavior or mannerisms of everyday, where the daily decisions are put up with a sheer lack og
critical thinking. The main objective and aim of the research is to introspect and analyze the
relationship between competence in decision making and the outcomes of the decision people

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often experience in the real and pragmatic world. The findings that arrived as the outcome of the
research was that higher competence in decision making gave positive decision making
outcomes. The decision making skills in the respective article had been researched in isolation
which had subsequently prevented an amicable apprehension of connection between variety of
skills and its parameters, a commendable association of cognitive competencies and other
competencies that determine decision making, and most significantly, between real world
outcomes and decision making competencies. The article has clearly discussed about different
dimensions of critical thinking, one of the most important being Halpern Critical Thinking
Assessment (HCTA) (Butler, 2012). Halpern Critical Thinking Assessment can be defined as a
unique critical thinking assessment that assesses five dimensions of critical thinking, namely,
verbal reasoning, argument analysis, thinking as hypothesis testing, likelihood and uncertainty,
decision making and problem solving (Butler, Pentoney & Bong, 2017). The most significant
contribution of HCTA is that it provides a separate and unique dimension of critical thinking
because it is the only test of critical thinking that uses multiple response formats, which allow
test takers to demonstrate their ability to think about everyday topics using both constructed
responses and recognition formats. With the help of multiple response formats, the examinee
would be able to identify his or her positive sides as well as negative sides of critical thinking
with the help of multifaceted and multidimensional results (Paul & Elder, 2019). Whenever the
results are multidimensional, the examinee would likely to be free from any kind of one-way bias
about his or her capabilities and would be able to assess him or her more comprehensively,
precisely and accurately. In the respective article, the situations that were provided were 25 daily
life scenarios that concerned about health, education, social welfare, publicity and politics to
assess the five dimension of critical thinking based on Halpern Critical Thinking Assessment