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These resources accompany "Exercises for Critical Thinking" which is also available on Merlot.  They provide resources for teaching critical thinking using a data-driven approach.  I use various data sets to teach critical thinking skills.  They include the General Social Survey and various Pew Research Center surveys. Critical thinking in this class refers to the ability to answer why questions such as why some people favor and others oppose gun control and why people vote the way they do. We focus on using the scientific approach to answer such questions although not all questions are can be answered with this approach. Critical thinking also refers to the ability to develop organized and logical arguments and to test hypotheses using the scientific approach. In my class the papers revolve around the analysis of survey data.  There are five main sections in the class:  scientific approach, argumentation, causal arguments and claims, analysis of quantitative data and fallacies or errors of reasoning.  You are free to use the assignments and data sets as they are or to modify them in any way you wish.

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