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Creative-Thinking Strategies

In addition to shaping each stage of the inquiry process, creative thinking can help you dig more deeply into any topic. Researcher Benjamin Bloom developed the following list of thinking skills that progress from surface to deeper levels of thought.

Creative-Thinking Strategies

Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy

Remembering

Remembering is recalling information.

Understanding

Understanding is knowing what the information means.

Applying

Applying is putting the information to use.

Analyzing

Analyzing is looking at the parts of something and figuring out how they fit together.

Evaluating

Evaluating is determining the value or worth of something.

Creating

Creating is putting ideas together in new ways to make something.

Your Turn How do you spark your creativity? What creative-thinking strategies do you use? Which thinking skills above do your strategies fit with or match?

 

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