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THINKING PRO has an integrated competency framework to benchmark the mastery of high school students' critical thinking, reading comprehension, and communication skills. It delineates competencies across three performance domains.
The competency framework is at the heart of all our interactive learning videos, curriculum materials, and assessment tools.
Domain 1: Gathering and Organizing Information
Skills and knowledge pertaining to the extraction, categorization, and analysis of information from a body of text.
Students will:
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Domain 2: Interpreting and Evaluating Information
Skills and knowledge pertaining to the continued analysis, processing, and interpretation of an informational text, as well as a subsequent evaluation of its internal consistency and trustworthiness.
Students will:
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Domain 3: Integrating and Communicating Information
Skills and knowledge pertaining to the student’s generation, formation, and communication of a position or personal statement, as well as the development of an original work product crafted to have impact with an intended audience.
Students will:
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The THINKING PRO framework does not depict a strict linear path but offers a phase-based process that was adapted from professional competency frameworks. It reflects the higher order levels of Bloom’s revised Taxonomy(Anderson & Krathwohl (2001), including analyzing, evaluating, and creating. The competencies comprise primarily observable and measurable skills and knowledge while integrating socio-emotional and motivational components (not delineated here) designed to foster healthy learning dispositions.
The framework was developed and validated by 12 subject matter experts in different areas:
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