Development of Understanding through Critical Thinking

Students are expected to cultivate critical thinking skills to delve beneath the surface of the subjects they study and engage in insightful discussions about the main theories and arguments. This development often occurs through participating in critical debates during seminars, delivering presentations, and producing written assessments or publications. While replicating underlying research can lead to a deeper understanding of a subject, time constraints make it impractical to conduct extensive research on every topic encountered, especially in undergraduate studies and everyday life. Thus, the depth of comprehension achieved through direct experience and experimentation needs to be supplemented by critical analysis of the work of others. The Need for Critical Evaluation Students must acquire the ability to critically evaluate the work of others. Some students readily accept or apply research findings without analyzing them sufficiently to verify if the evidence and reasoning genuinel…