Problem Finding and Problem Solving
The phrase problem finding caught my eye as I was recently reviewing the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum’s Critical Thinking Skills Checklist, in which it is included as one of seven habits of mind that constitute critical thinking: Problem Finding - Notes or requests information or identification; identifies information needed to form a conclusion/opinion; may propose a hypothesis in conjunction with stating the problem.[1] ISGM’s framework for assessing critical thinking has, most recently, been mentioned in a New York Times column on a study undertaken by another museum, the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art....