Thinking Skills
F7 Creative Thinking - Uses
imagination freely, combines ideas or information in new ways, makes connections between
seemingly unrelated ideas, and reshapes goals in ways that reveal new possibilities.
- F8 Decision Making -
Specifies goals and constraints, generates alternatives, considers risks, and evaluates
and chooses best alternative.
- Determine the
decision to be made
- Gather information
that will help make the decision
- Determine several
options or choices
- Weigh (evaluate)
the options or choices
- Select and carry
out one option
- Reflect on the
results of your decision to help you in future decisions
- F9 Problem Solving -
Recognizes that a problem exists (i.e., there is a discrepancy between what is and what
should or could be); identifies possible reasons for the discrepancy; devises and
implements a plan of action to resolve it; evaluates and monitors progress; and revises
plan as indicated by findings.
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- F10 Seeing Things in the Mind's
Eye - Organizes and processes symbols, pictures, graphs, objects or other information;
for example, sees a building from a blueprint, a system's operation from schematics, the
flow of work activities from narrative descriptions, or the taste of food from reading a
recipe.
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- Fll Knowing How To Learn -
Recognizes and can use learning techniques to apply and adapt new knowledge and skills in
both familiar and changing situations and is aware of teaming tools such as personal
teaming styles (visual, aural, etc.), formal learning strategies (note taking or
clustering items that share some characteristics), and informal teaming strategies
(awareness of unidentified false assumptions that may lead to faulty conclusions). [This
skill definition is not yet completely developed.
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- F12 Reasoning - Discovers a
rule or principle underlying the relationship between two or more objects and applies it
in solving a problem; uses logic to draw conclusions from available information; extracts
rules or principles from a set of objects or written text; applies rules and principles to
a new situation or determines which conclusions are correct when given a set of facts and
a set of conclusions. [This skill definition is not yet completely developed.
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