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1. REPORT DATE (dd-mm-yy)
July 2001
2. REPORT TYPE
Final
3. DATES COVERED (from. . . to)
December 2000 to July 2001
4. TITLE AND SUBTITLE
Training Critical Thinking Skills for Battle
Command: ARI Workshop Proceedings
5a. CONTRACT OR GRANT NUMBER
DASW01-98-D-0049
5b. PROGRAM ELEMENT NUMBER
622785
6.
AUTHOR(S)
Sharon L. Riedel (U.S. Army Research Institute), Ray
A. Morath and P. Timothy McGonigle (Caliber Associates)
5c. PROJECT NUMBER
A950
5d. TASK NUMBER
1141
5e. WORK UNIT NUMBER
C01
7. PERFORMING ORGANIZATION NAME(S) AND ADDRESS(ES)
U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences
5001 Eisenhower Avenue
Alexandria, VA 22333-5600
Personnel Decisions Research Institutes
43 Maine Street SE
Suite 405
Minneapolis MN 55414
8. PERFORMING ORGANIZATION REPORT NUMBER
9. SPONSORING/MONITORING AGENCY NAME(S) AND ADDRESS(ES)
U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences
5001 Eisenhower Avenue
10. MONITOR ACRONYM
ARI
Alexandria, VA 22333-5600
11. MONITOR REPORT NUMBER
Research Report 1777
12. DISTRIBUTION/AVAILABILITY STATEMENT
Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.
13. SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES
Contracting Officer’s Representative, Sharon L. Riedel
14. ABSTRACT (Maximum 200 words):
The ARI Workshop, Training Critical Thinking Skills for Battle Command, was held on 5-6 December 2001 at Ft. Leavenworth. The
purpose of the Workshop was to (1) provide an overview of current research in critical thinking and training critical thinking (CT), (2)
provide a forum for identifying and discussing issues related to training CT in the Army; and (3) develop recommendations for training
and for future directions for research and development in the area of CT training. Participants with a variety of expertise attended –
military officers, instructors in Ct and academic researchers in CT. The following papers were presented: Critical Thinking in the 21
st
Century by MG (Ret.) Lon Maggart; Thinking Critically about Critical Thinking by Diane Halpern; A Framework for Critical Thinking
Research and Training by Susan Fischer; A Three part theory of Critical Thinking: Dialogue, Mental Models and Reliability by Marvin
Cohen; Critical Thinking in Teams by Daniel Serfaty; and A Simulation Tool for Critical Thinking Training by Marvin Cohen. The
Proceedings includes these papers, with the exception of the Serfaty paper. Workshop participants discussed a variety of issues related
to training CT and their recommendations for training and future research are included in the Proceedings.
15. SUBJECT TERMS
Critical thinking, training, battle command, skills
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