Higher-order thinking skills are part of critical thinking because they involve breaking information apart, creating something new from the information, and assessing the information for reliability or usefulness.

Cultivating strong critical thinking and problem-solving skills will make future choices easier as you complete a certificate or degree.

You will need to use creative thinking to consider all sides of the solution before you make a final decision.

To improve your analytical thinking skills, practice with basic logic problems that require you to break apart the problem and examine the different parts to arrive at an answer.

Someone who thinks critically takes information at its face value.