Information to Develop Critical Thinking Questions
"We should be teaching students how to think. Instead, we are teaching them what to think."
Clement and Lochhead, 1980, Cognitive Process Instruction.

*Critical thinking questions require answers that involve thinking, open-end questions with more than one correct answer, and not a yes or no answer.   Introduction to Critical Thinking by Steven Schafersman

"The purpose of critical thinking is, therefore, to achieve understanding, evaluate view points, and solve problems. Since all three areas involve the asking of questions, we can say that critical thinking is the questioning or inquiry we engage in when we seek to understand, evaluate, or resolve."

Maiorana, Victor P. Critical Thinking Across the Curriculum: Building the Analytical Classroom. 1992.

Examples of critical thinking questions:
1. If you could be any character in history, who would you be and what would you do?
2. If you could change how the story ended, tell how would you change the ending of the story.
3. If computers had not been invented, what would you do differently today?
4. Name two numbers that their products equal 12.