Critical Thinking for Decision-Making
  • Type Learning
  • Time Weeks
  • Cost Paid

Critical Thinking for Decision-Making

Issued by Dalhousie University

Earners of the Critical Thinking for Decision-Making Microcredential can critically assess and synthesize multiple forms of data, feedback, and information to support decision making in a leadership context. They can select appropriate data sources, identify limitations of decision making related to their own bias, construct questions to elicit a deeper understanding of a problem, and identify communication issues and constraints.

  • Type Learning
  • Time Weeks
  • Cost Paid

Skills

Earning Criteria

  • Earners of this microcredential identified appropriate data sources, communication issues, and power structures that influence decision-making within a complex scenario. They examined their personal biases that influence this interpretation through journaling, and demonstrated their ability to elicit a deeper understanding of an issue using Socratic questioning (both verbally and digitally). An instructor used a mastery-based learning approach & earners met the minimum standards within a rubric.