Critical Thinking in Research

APIIT/UCTI Foundation Programme

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Research Methods for Degree StudyBUS-F-04-RMS

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Introduction to Research

• Critical Thinking in Research• Elements of Critical Thinking

– Inference– Analysis– Explanation– Interpretation – Evaluation

• Applying Critical Thinking in Research

Topic & Structure of the lesson

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Introduction to Research

• Enable students to develop critical thinking skills to evaluate and analyse research

• Develop introductory skills for critical thinking to be develop in later levels

• Apply critical thinking skills to research analysis

Learning Outcomes

Module Code and Module Title Slide 4 (of 11)Title of SlidesResearch Methods for Degree Study

Introduction to Research

• Critical Thinking in Research• Elements of Critical Thinking

– Inference– Analysis– Explanation– Interpretation – Evaluation

• Applying Critical Thinking in Research

Structure of the lesson

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Introduction to Research

• In order to be a effective research, you must be able to critically evaluate research materials to ensure the appropriateness and suitability of data.

• A critical thinker will be able to differentiate relevant research data, arguments, debates, conclusions to ensure the integrity and cohesiveness of their research topic.

Critical Thinking in Research

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Introduction to Research

Elements of Critical Thinking

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Introduction to Research

• interpretation means “to comprehend and express the meaning or significance of a wide variety of experiences, situations, data, events, judgments, conventions, beliefs, rules, procedures or criteria”;

• Sub-skills includes categorisation, decoding significance, and clarifying meaning.

Critical Thinking: Interpretation

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Introduction to Research

• analysis means “to identify the intended and actual inferential relationships among statements, questions, concepts, descriptions, or other forms of representations intended to express belief and judgments”;

• Sub-skills includes examining ideas, detecting arguments.

Critical Thinking: Analysis

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Introduction to Research

• inference means “to identify and secure elements needed to draw reasonable conclusions; to form conjectures and hypotheses;

• to consider relevant information and to educe the consequences flowing from data, statements, principles, evidence, judgments, beliefs, opinions, concepts, descriptions, questions, or other forms of representation.”

Critical Thinking: Inference

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Introduction to Research

• Explanation as being able “to state the results of one’s reasoning;

• to justify that reasoning in terms of the evidential, conceptual, methodological, criteriological, and contextual considerations upon which one’s results were based;

• and to present one’s reasoning in the form of cogent arguments.”

Critical Thinking: Explanation

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Introduction to Research

• self-regulation to mean “self-consciously to monitor one’s cognitive activities, the elements used in those activities, and the results educed;

• particularly by applying skills in analysis, and evaluation to one’s own inferential judgments with a view toward questioning, confirming, validation, or correcting either one’s reasoning or one’s results.”

Critical Thinking: Self-Regulation

Module Code and Module Title Slide 10 (of 11)Title of SlidesResearch Methods for Degree Study

Introduction to Research

• evaluation means “To assess the credibility of statements or other representations”;

• It means judging an author or piece of research materials based on certain evaluative criteria such as author credibility, alternative authors and reference materials.

Critical Thinking: Evaluation

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Introduction to Research

• Imagine you have been invited to a movie by a friend. But it’s not a movie you want to see.

• So, your friend asks you why. You give your honest reason — the movie offends your sense of decency, not because of the language used or the sexuality portrayed, but because of the violence it depicts so graphically.

Movie Review Exercise

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Introduction to Research

• In this situation:– How would you describe and explain the level

of language or elements in the movie used?– How would you critically evaluate the given

movie with your own personal biasness and perceptions?

– Discuss this now!

Movie Review Exercise

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Controversial Movies

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Introduction to Research

• Inquisitive

• Systematic

• Analytical

• Open-mindedness

• Judicious

• Truth-seeking

• Confident in reasoning

Traits of a Critical Thinker

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Introduction to Research

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Q & A

Question and Answer Session