Department of Homeland Security - including deductive reasoning, reasoning with sets, inductive reasoning about real-world events, and statistical reasoning - includes quizzes throughout
Sherlock Holmes "I have already explained to you that what is out of the common is usually a guide rather than a hindrance. In solving a problem of this sort, the grand thing is to be able to reason backward. That is a ...
A talk from TED.com "By the end of this talk, there will be 864 more hours of video on YouTube and 2.5 million more photos on Facebook and Instagram. So how do we sort through the deluge? At the TEDSalon in London, Markham ...
Mind Mirror Projects: A Tool for Integrating Critical Thinking into the English Language Classroom , by Tully, in English Teaching Forum, State Department, 2009 Number 1
Promoting Critical Thinking In Professional Military Education, an Air University research paper. Appendix A - Gubbin's Matrix of Thinking Skills - for problem solving, decision making, inferences, divergent thinking, and ...
Psychology of Intelligence Analysis , by Heuer, 1999, for CIA -- very good examination of many elements of critical thinking, with examples (PDF version) [from the introduction] Dick Heuer's writings make three fundamental ...
The Test of Everyday Reasoning (TER) is an objective measure of the basic reasoning skills needed for effective and reasoned decision making concerning what to believe or what to do in any given situation.
Critical Thinking - tools to test/measure The Critical Thinking Rubric, Critical Thinking Project, Washington State University - assesses skill at each step of the problem solving process, including ability of individual ...
Thinking and Writing: Cognitive Science and Intelligence Analysis , by Sinclair, CIA Center for the Study of Intelligence, Feb 2010 revision of 1984 monograph We are, in fact, better at generating problems than at solving ...