This past week in our QEP workshop, we started winding up our discussion on critical thinking. One of our final tasks on this subject is to identify ways to evaluate the level of critical thinking in our students. We have decided to create a Critical Thinking Rubric.
When you look up “Critical Thinking Rubric” on Google, you get thousands of examples. It seems like we may be re-inventing the wheel here. So, you may wonder why are we wanting to create our own. However, I believe one reason may be that there is no “one size fits all.” We can take inspiration from the examples out there and craft a rubric that fits our faculty needs. There also seems to be a hidden lesson in all this - we are learning to think critically about evaluating critical thinking. May the force be with us on our quest! :-)
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Ahh, you have found out the method in the madness. Yes, a big part of this exercise has been to think about thinking—to do critical thinking ourselves.
ReplyDeleteBut we've also been working to form specific statements and rubrics for our own QEP classes. I think we will get there.