Higher Level Analysis Required For Doctoral Work
I recommend students to carefully examine this power
point. In doctoral work, students are no longer just asked to demonstrate
that they can understand, memorize, recall, and
apply coursework to the real world. Instead, the doctoral level
requires students to be able to synthesize and evaluate concepts (newer
taxonomy replaces evaluate with create). Students are asked to critically
assess ideas, develop a professional opinion, and amply support arguments via
scholarly literature. Students do not believe everything they read in the
scholarly literature. Doctoral students have a healthy skepticism
and do the following to assess concepts in the literature: identify and
explain author's main thesis or argument; identify context in which article
was written; identify article's assumptions about theories and/methodologies;
evaluate the author's concepts in light of the student's own values and
assumptions; and weigh the evidence for the author's argument; draw logical and
sound conclusions.
Bloom's Taxonomy closely relates to a topic that this blog
has covered previously, Critical Thinking. Below are a few resources on
Bloom's Taxonomy and critical thinking:
Sternberg, R.J., Roediger, H., & Halpern, D. (Eds.)
(2006) Critical Thinking in Psychology. NY: Cambridge University Press
**For more resources see criticalthinking.org
NOTE: *I did not create, nor
do I own this power point. This is available for general public use.
