Critical Thinking

SAGE Student Success

SAGE Student Success modules to support Critical Thinking 

SAGE Student Success is a collection of online skills modules, allowing University of Derby students to practice and master essential skills for academic success and beyond.  Including diagnostic assessments, interactive content and knowledge checks, they provide targeted support for a wide range of skills. Modules to support Critical Thinking include: 

• Why should I care about critical thinking 

• Language, rhetoric, and clarity 

• Identifying and reconstructing arguments 

• Deductive and inductive reasoning 

• Fallacies and how to spot them 

• The power of good explanations 

• Evaluating evidence effectively 

• Heuristics and cognitive biases 

• Overcoming bias 

• Putting critical thinking skills into practice 

• Information has value 

• Information’s not neutral, and neither are individuals 

• Missing and unheard voices