‘Critical-thinking’ is used in 4 frameworks

Critical thinking, an instrumental life skill conducive to academic achievement, is a long-standing life skill, which allows ‘reflective thinking’: By thinking critically, children, youth and all individuals who learn to assess situations and assumptions, ask questions and develop various ways of thinking. Therefore, critical thinking involves higher-order executive functioning: This is a ‘meta-skill’ through which one learns to think about thinking and develop purposeful thinking processes, such as being able to discern and evaluate whether an argument makes sense or not.

• Girls can ask questions about a concept or subject to gain better understanding.
• Girls can demonstrate how to think critically about a complex concept or new subject.
• Girls can critically analyze concepts and subject matter and share their perspective on it.

Students are able to objectively analyze and evaluate an issue in order to form a judgement. Students are equipped with higher order functioning skills that allows analysis of information in a more objective manner to make balanced decisions and solve problems. One learns to assess situations and assumptions, ask questions and develop various ways of thinking.

Ability to appropriately/adequately analyse information in order to come to a judgement