According the Ontario Achievement Charts, Thinking is defined as the use of critical or creative thinking skills and/or processes.
Students are assessed on their: -use of planning skills (e.g., generating ideas, gathering information, focusing research, organizing information) -use of processing skills (e.g., making inferences, interpreting, analysing, detecting bias, synthesizing, evaluating, forming conclusions) -use of critical/creative thinking processes (e.g., reading process, writing process, oral discourse, research, critical/creative analysis, critical literacy, metacognition, invention) This publication is available on the Ministry of Education’s website, at http://www.edu.gov.on.ca. pages 17-18 |