Insight Assessment Critical Thinking Resources

Insight Assessment

Critical Thinking Resources

THE POWER OF ASKING GOOD QUESTIONS

As an instructor, mentor, leader or learner, asking good questions, ones that promote critical thinking, is a highly effective way to gather important information, to probe unspoken assumptions, to clarify issues and to explore options. Asking good questions promotes strong problem solving and decision making, particularly when we encounter unfamiliar issues or significant problems. There are many familiar questions that remind us and invite us to use our critical thinking skills. We can associate certain questions with certain skills. The table below gives some examples.1 Often, our best critical thinking comes when we ask the right questions.2

1 Table ? 2013. User Manual for the California Critical Thinking Skills Test, published by Insight Assessment, Millbrae, CA. 2 M. Neil Browne and Stuart M. Keeley, Asking the Right Questions, 9th ed. (Pearson Prentice Hall, 2009).

? 2012 Measured Reasons, Hermosa Beach, CA. This is a component of the teaching and learning materials packet offered by Insight Assessment as classroom support for

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