6.2: Think Analytically about Cultivating a Growth Mindset
Analytical Thinking
Think analytically to determine how the following concepts relate to cultivating a growth mindset:
- Use of feedback
- Goal setting
- Time management
- Community involvement
- Persistence during stressful times
Analytical Thinking
A nalysis is the process of methodically breaking something down to gain a better understanding of it. Analysis also includes the ability to connect pieces of information as the basis for generalization or explanation.
Essential skills of analysis are the following:
- Breaking down information or artifacts into component parts
- Uncovering relationships among those parts
- Determining motives, causes, and underlying assumptions
- Making inferences and finding evidence to support generalizations
When thinking analytically, determine
- how the parts of something relate to the whole
- how something works
- what something means
- why it’s important
Glossary
analysis : the process of methodically breaking something down to gain a better understanding of it
Contributors and Attributions
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- What Is Analysis? and The Language of Analytic Assignments. Authored by : Karen Forgette. Provided by : University of Mississippi. License : CC BY-SA: Attribution-ShareAlike