thinking skills assessment
1Higher order thinking skills — The concept of higher order thinking skills became a major educational agenda item with the 1956 publication of Bloom s taxonomy of educational objectives. The simplest thinking skills are learning facts and recall, while higher order skills… …
2Critical thinking — is the process or method of thinking that questions assumptions. It is a way of deciding whether a claim is true, false, or sometimes true and sometimes false, or partly true and partly false. The origins of critical thinking can be traced in… …
3Skills based routing — (SBR), or Skills based call routing, is a call assignment strategy used in call centres to assign incoming calls to the most suitable agent, rather than simply choosing the next available agent. It is an enhancement to the Automatic Call… …
4Assessment for Learning — In classrooms where assessment for learning is practised, students know at the outset of a unit of study what they are expected to learn. At the beginning of the unit, the teacher will work with the student to understand what she or he already… …
5Historical thinking — is defined by many education resources as a set of reasoning skills that students of history should learn as a result of studying history. Sometimes called historical reasoning skills, historical thinking skills are frequently described in… …
6Key Skills Qualification — The Key Skills Qualification [http://www.qca.org.uk/603.html] is a frequently required component of 14 19 education in England, Northern Ireland and Wales. The aim of Key Skills is to encourage learners to develop and demonstrate their skills as… …
7Basic skills — can be compared to higher order thinking skills. Facts and methods are highly valued under the back to basics approach to education.* Facts are learned one at a time, in isolation, as compared to an integrated curriculum which combines fields of… …
8Formative assessment — is a self reflective process that intends to promote student attainment [ [http://www.leeds.ac.uk/educol/documents/00001862.htm Crooks, T. (2001), The Validity of Formative Assessments, Paper presented to the British Educational Research… …
9Managerial assessment of proficiency — The term managerial assessment of proficiency (MAP) describes a methodology for the assessment of managerial competence in human resource and training applications. MAP is designed for evaluation of a manager s proficiency in 12 prescribed… …
10Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills — The Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (TAKS) is a standardized test used in Texas primary and secondary schools to assess students attainment of reading, writing, math, science, and social studies skills required under Texas education… …
