Task Specific Clarification:
Analysis and evaluation of:
– critical and creative-thinking skills appropriate to the project
– transfer of learning from the research to generate new ideas or solve problems
Questions to Consider/ Ideas:

• Evaluating Evidence, arguments and Propositions
• Recognizing bias
• Developing opposing arguments
• Analyze complex concepts
• Troubleshoot systems and applications
• Create original works and ideas
• Use existing works in new ways
• Applying skills and knowledge to unfamiliar situations

Suggested Report Section Titles
Development of Thinking Skills

Evidence Artifact Suggestions:
Sketches, Brainstorming, Research, Drafts, Organization of Research

Common Missing Pieces in the Report

• Outline thinking skills from the beginning of the project
• Discuss in more depth the thinking skills you developed throughout the project
• Give specific examples of critical and creative thinking skills (see atls)

Demonstrate limited thinking skills	Outline of: • critical- and/or creative-thinking skills relevant to the project.
Demonstrate adequate thinking skills	Description of: • critical- and creative-thinking skills appropriate to the project • transfer of some learning from the research that helps to achieve the project’s goal.
Demonstrate substantial thinking skills	Explanation of: • critical and creative-thinking skills appropriate to the project • transfer of learning from the research to generate new ideas or solve problems that help to achieve the project’s goal.
Demonstrate excellent thinking skills	Analysis and evaluation of: • critical and creative-thinking skills appropriate to the project • transfer of learning from the research to generate new ideas or solve problems