Assignment 4: Thinking Skills and
Creativity
Assignment 4: Thinking Skills and Creativity
Read assigned article “Thinking Skills and Creativity.” “Critical
thinking perspectives across contexts and curricula: Dominant,
neglected, and complementing dimensions” by Luis Fernando
Santos Meneses
Objective
To relate the material in Chapter 3, “Thinking Critically” and
Chapter 4, “Solving Problems” to the thesis of a research article.
Your paper will consist of three sections as follows.
Introduction Paragraph (2 pts.)
Briefly summarize the abstract in five sentences or less.
Thinking (6 pts.)
From the Introduction paragraph 1. of the article, and Table One,
explain the three historical waves of thinking and research on
critical thinking.
From the Skills Based CT Perspective paragraph 2. of the article,
explain the “critical thinking skills-based approach” and its
shortcomings.

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