Everyone’s a Critic:  How to Assess Students’ Critical Thinking Skills 

Session Facilitator:  Jill Peterson

Offered on January 24, 2007 from 1 p. m. to 2:30 p.m.

Location:  Building 1 – Room 215 (Health Science Computer Lab)

Objectives

Thinking skills.  Critical thinking.  Higher-order thinking.  Call it what you want, but the bottom line is, how do you ASSESS your students?  This session will:

• Teach you Bloom's taxonomy for the 21st century - an update!
• Explore assessment tools for higher order thinking skills
• Build the foundation for rubrics
• Demonstrate how to create a rubric for a variety of assessments

   

Pizza rubric.ppt

 

 

Outside Resources 

The "new and improved" Bloom's Taxonomy:

http://www.utechtips.com/?p=332  - blog about the update/changes to Bloom

http://www.apa.org/ed/new_blooms.html - site for revised blog and yahoo - directly related to assessments!

http://rubistar.4teachers.org/index.php - online rubric creator

http://www.teach-nology.com/web_tools/rubrics/ - a very annoying site, but it has some good links regarding rubrics

http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/assess.html - sample rubrics

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