Development of Secondary School Students Critical Thinking as a Strategic Priority of Modern Education

The National Federal Education Standards define critical thinking skills as one of the main features\nof the “school graduate’s portrait“. In this regard, critical thinking skills, the efficiency of which on\neach level can be evaluated with specific criteria, should be properly defined in national standards and\nprograms. This article provides an analysis of foreign experience (Singapore, Finland, Hong Kong,\nand Australia) in critical thinking development as a possible way of implementing critical thinking\nideology in Russian school education. The author makes an attempt to define a set of requirements\nfor determination of the main criteria of the critical thinking skills development, and suggest some\nmethods for critical thinking assessment to be used by the authors of the National Federal Education\nStandards

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