Critical Thinking Rubric - Hostos Community College
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The Professor Magda Vasillov General Education
and Assessment Committee
Rubrics for Lunch
November 19, 2009
Gina Cicco, Ed.D.
Introduction
• Why use critical thinking rubrics?
Our Rubric
• Bloom’s Taxonomy
Putting the Rubric to Work
• Examples for practice
• Group activity
Discussion
Conclusion
• Questions & comments
Primary objective of a college
• Defining critical thinking
• Measuring critical thinking ability
• Promote thinking and learning
education
Help
students reflect on and improve their
thinking and writing abilities
(metacognition)
Help
teachers teach and evaluate,
instructional tools
Provides
a more global assessment of
performance than the checklist-based
method
Clarify
expectations and learning
objectives for various types of
assignments
Allows
for faculty and peer assessment
and an ongoing exchange of feedback
First
three categories are hierarchical
Basic
knowledge: memorizing facts,
figures, and basic processes
Secondary
comprehension:
understanding and illustrating the facts
Application: generalizing
the facts to
other contexts and situations
Last
three categories are not hierarchical,
require knowledge and comprehension of
content, and are considered higher-order
skills
Analysis: understanding
why the facts are the
way they are; breaking problems down
Synthesis: making
connections between
different elements on one’s own
Evaluation: critically
using one’s knowledge
to ascertain the quality of information
Hostos
Draft
http://www.hostos.cuny.edu/oaa/pdf/Cri
tical%20Thinking.pdf
AAC&U Value
Rubric
http://www.hostos.cuny.edu/oaa/pdf/aac
us09_criticalthinkingrubric.pdf
Easy
to use and to explain
Make teachers’ expectations very clear
Provide students with informative
feedback about their strengths and areas
in need of improvement
Support learning
Support the development of skills
Support the development of
understanding
Support higher-order thinking
Please
read the assignment…
Use
the rubric to score the sample
assignment…
What
feedback/comments would you
provide this student?
Discuss
in small groups…
Discussion
Questions
Comments
Suggestions
Thank
you… please provide your feedback
so we can improve the rubrics!!!