Thinking about your thinking
Understanding more about your thinking is a very important skill to acquire and will help you to learn more quickly. As you are working, think about which of these types of thinking you are using in each section of e-TASC.
Information processing skills
– this might be researching knowledge or ideas, sorting or classifying information, comparing and contrasting ideas or analysing the relationships between concepts and ideas.
Reasoning skills
– this might be giving reasons for opinions and actions, analysing the evidence, reading in between the lines, explaining your thinking, making judgements based on evidence.
Enquiry skills
– this might be working out what questions you need to ask, analysing the problem and working out what you have to find out, planning what you are going to do and strategies for how you will do it, using evidence to make predictions about what will happen.
Creative thinking
– this might be coming up with ideas, working out which are the best ideas, suggesting hypotheses and using your imagination or coming up with alternative conclusions – expect the unexpected!
Evaluation skills
– this might be assessing your work and identifying what you did well and what you could do better next time, explaining unexpected results, judging the value of what you read, hear or do.