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James Madison Critical Thinking Course - eBook

Captivating Crime-Related Scenarios

Grades: 10-12+

Critical Thinking, Test Prep & Tests

Full curriculum

Grades: 10-12+

Critical Thinking, Test Prep & Tests

Full curriculum

  •  Multiple Award Winner
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James Madison Critical Thinking Course - Answer Guide - eBook

James Madison Critical Thinking Course - eBook

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Description and Features

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05765PEP

Description and Features

Engages students in captivating crime-related scenarios!

Description and Features

This comprehensive 544-page critical thinking course engages students in captivating crime-solving related scenarios to develop essential critical thinking skills. The step-by-step lessons and activities are easy-to-use and help students transfer these vital skills throughout academia and life.  The course can be used with sharp students beginning in 8th grade, above average high school students, and adults.

The course teaches more than 65 critical thinking related skills and concepts that will improve academic performance across the curriculum:

  • Interpret and apply complex texts, instructions, illustrations, etc.
  • Recognize and clarify issues, claims, arguments, and explanations
  • Distinguish: conclusions, premises (reasons), arguments, explanations, assumptions (stated/unstated), issues, claims (statements), suppositions, unstated conclusions, unstated premises and implications
  • Recognize ambiguity and unclearness in claims, arguments, and explanations
  • Distinguish necessary and sufficient conditions
  • Describe the structure or outline of arguments and explanations: confirmation, disconfirmation
  • Evaluate whether an inductive argument is strong or weak
  • Evaluate claims and arguments in terms of criteria such as: consistency, relevance, support
  • Evaluate analogical arguments and inductive generalization arguments in terms of criteria, such as: the greater the number of similarities between the conclusion and the premises regarding the sample, the stronger the argument
  • Assess the relevance of claims to other claims, and to questions, descriptions, representations, procedures, information, directives, rules, principles, etc.
  • Evaluate whether a deductive argument is valid or invalid (logical form): categorical, truth-functional, and semantic/definitional
  • Distinguish supporting, conflicting, compatible, and equivalent claims, arguments, explanations, descriptions, representations, etc.
  • Identify and avoid errors in reasoning, informal fallacies: begging the question, equivocation, post hoc, ergo propter hoc (after that, therefore, because of that), false dilemma/false dichotomy fallacy (line drawing fallacy, perfectionist fallacy), smoke screen/red herring/rationalizing, hasty generalization, appeal to ridicule/sarcasm, ad hominem fallacy (personal attack, poisoning the well), appeal to illegitimate authority, loaded question, evidence surrogate, stereotyping , appeal to consequences (favorable or unfavorable), "wishful thinking", genetic fallacy, biased generalization, anecdotal evidence
  • Discern whether pairs of claims are consistent, contrary, contradictory, or paradoxical

Teaching Support
The 102-page Answer Guide (required, sold separately) includes teaching suggestions and answers. No previous background in logic is required to teach these activities.

Note: The James Madison Test of Critical Thinking Forms A and B provide a direct assessment of skills covered in this book (contact us for licensing).

eBook Ordering
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Product Details

Item#: 05765PEP
Author(s): William O'Meara, Ph.D. and Daniel Flage, Ph.D.
TOC: View Table of Contents
Subject: Critical Thinking, Test Prep & Tests
Type: Student Book
Media: eBook
License: Printable
ISBN–13: 978-1-60144-848-4
Pages: 544

Awards

Practical Homeschooling Magazine - Reader Awards, 2015 - Honorable Mention, Logic

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