Intellectual Standards of Critical and Creative Thinking

Intellectual Standards Poster

Clarity	being easy to understand and free from confusion or ambiguity
Accuracy	being free from errors, mistakes, or distortions
Precision	being accurate, definite and exact
Relevance	bearing upon or relating to the matter at hand
Depth	dealing with the complexities of the issue
Breadth	recognizing insights in more than one side of a question
Logic	reasoning correctly with the system of principles, concepts, and assumptions that underlie a discipline, activity or practice
Significance	having relative importance
Fairness	treating all sides alike without reference to one’s own feelings or interests

The intellectual standards of critical thinking are from The Foundation for Critical Thinking http://www.criticalthinking.org/.
 

Originality	constructive imagination and independent thought
Adaptability	the ability to adjust thinking under new or unstable conditions and to move among various vehicles of thought depending on context
Appropriateness	goodness of fit between the constraints of the problem and the properties of the solution
Contribution to the Domain	the accepted worth of new ideas within the discipline