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Critical Thinking Process

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Running head: ENGLISH FOR ACEDEMIC PURPOSES1Learning and Demonstrating Critical Thinking Skills in Higher Education[Author Name][Institutional]Author Note
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ENGLISH FOR ACEDEMIC PURPOSES2AbstractThe current education system has brought standardized tests that aim at measuring the students' learning gains on critical thinking. Despite that, many students don’t yet know how to think critically. Critical thinking is an academic skill that needs procedures and practice. Nevertheless, students at higher education can still enhance their critical thinking skills by employing different methods. For instance, they can use instructional strategies to engage themselves in learning processes instead of relying on lectures and notes memorization. They can also use assessment techniques with intellectual challenges rather than memorizing facts. This paper is an evaluation of how students in higher education can learn and demonstrate critical thinking in their work.Keywords: Critical Thinking, Instructional, Assessments
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ENGLISH FOR ACEDEMIC PURPOSES3Learning and Demonstrating Critical thinking in Higher EducationWhat is critical thinking and why is it a necessity? Many scholars agree that critical thinking is a disciplined intellectual process. The process engages a student to actively and skillfully conceptualize, apply, analyze, synthesize, and evaluate the information presented (Wisdom & Leavitt, 2015). This information may come from observations, reflection, reasoning, communication, experience or beliefs. Also, there are still others scholars like (Mulnix, 2012) who believe that critical thinking is metacognitive or a process of thinking about thinking. Nevertheless, all explanation leads to the same thing. Critical thinking skill has various advantages. One of them is that it enables students to act rationally in scientific, social, and practical situations (Wisdom & Leavitt, 2015). Simply put,scholars who think critically solve problems efficiently. Indeed, critical thinking goes beyond just having knowledge or information on a concept. The current evolving world requires problemsolvers and people who can make an informed decision. Therefore, it requires a student to have the skill to make informed decisions either in the study or at a workplace.Critical Thinking ProcessCritical thinking is a learning process. The skills need development, practice, and regular integration. With this, students need to focus their attentions on the content application, learning process, and assessment methods. By content application, it means that students need to distant themselves from memorizing facts within the content. Instead, they should use those facts to stimulate their thinking (Popil, 2011). Instead of memorizing the facts, students should analyze them, synthesize, and evaluate that information to make an informed decision. Critical thinking is a constant mental process. In (Railean, Elçi & Elçi, 2017), critical thinking continuously challenges the students to think about their thinking capabilities, improve
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