Promoting Cognitive Development, Critical. Thinking and Moral Reasoning
Faculty should encourage students to
- Ask what-if questions
- Ask what-else questions
- Think out loud; write it down
- Ask an expert to think out loud
- Paraphrase
- Compare and contrast
- Organize and reorganize information
- Look for flaws in your thinking
From: Alfaro-LeFevre, R. (1999). Critical thinking in nursing (2nd ed.). Saunders: Philadelphia.