Compare and contrast these models.

• Bloom’s taxonomy.
• Facione’s core critical thinking skills.
• Paul and Elder’s elements of thought.

Compare and contrast these models.

• What do you see as their strengths and weaknesses?
• What do they share in common?
• What does synthesize mean within the context of Bloom’s taxonomy and Granello’s 2001 article, “Promoting Cognitive Complexity in Graduate Written Work”?
• How could you imagine using each model as a practitioner-scholar working in your specialization?
• Give an example of how you would use each model to evaluate some content in one of the articles you located for your research project.