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The document outlines different levels of thinking skills including remembering, understanding, applying, analyzing, evaluating, and creating. For each level it provides the purpose, prompts, and example questions that relate to that level of thinking. The lower levels involve recalling facts and basic comprehension, while the higher levels involve more complex skills like applying knowledge, breaking down information, making judgments, and coming up with new ideas.

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Discussion Questions

The document outlines different levels of thinking skills including remembering, understanding, applying, analyzing, evaluating, and creating. For each level it provides the purpose, prompts, and example questions that relate to that level of thinking. The lower levels involve recalling facts and basic comprehension, while the higher levels involve more complex skills like applying knowledge, breaking down information, making judgments, and coming up with new ideas.

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Thinking Skills Purpose Action Example

Prompts Questions
Lower Levels
Remembering Memorize & Describe What do we already
Recall Facts Identify know about ?
List What are the
Name principles of ?
Recognize How does tie in
Retrieve with what we
learned before?
Understanding Interpret Describe Summarize
Meaning Estimate Explain
Explain What will happen if
Generalize ?
Predict What does
mean?
Higher Levels
Applying Apply Apply What would
Knowledge to Carry Out happen if ?
New Situations Hypothesize What are some
Implement examples of how
Show can be seen in
Solve society today?
Use How could be
used to...?
What is the
counterargument
for ?
Analyzing Break Down or Compare Why is important?
Examine Contrast What are the
Information Deconstruct implications of ?
Organize While these readings
both discuss , how
do they differ in their
approach?
What is the
difference between
and ?
How are and
similar?
How does relate
to (eg. concept
from a previous
week)?
How does inform
our understanding
of (eg. larger
social
phenomena)?
Do we expect to
change based on
(eg. current
trend)?
Evaluating Judge or Check How does affect
Decide Conclude ?
According to a Critique Why is
Set of Criteria Explain happening?
Judge What is the best
and why?
Do you agree or
disagree with ?
What evidence is
there to support
your answer?
What are the
strengths and
weakness of ?
The author does not
address/provide
evidence for
Does this affect
whether you are
convinced by their
argument?
Creating Combine Construct What is one solution
Elements into a Design to the problem of
New Pattern Plan ?
Produce What do you think
causes ? Why?
What is another way
to look at ?
What are the policy
implications of ?

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