The document outlines various process skills related to information processing, problem solving, teamwork, personal skills, and critical thinking. Some key skills listed include observing, listening, estimating, problem solving, managing challenges, collaboration, communication, critical thinking, and personal development skills like self-esteem and self-evaluation. The document provides a comprehensive overview of important soft skills for processing information, working with others, and developing critical thinking abilities.

1. Process Skills
Information
Processing Problem Solving Teamwork Personal Skills Critical Thinking Communication
Observing/recognizing Persisting Respecting Building self-esteem Transferring Articulating an idea
Listening Imagining Forming shared Trusting self Generalizing – Express concepts,
Estimating Accepting understanding Evaluating – Move from specifics definitions, and
Translating challenge Taking risks performance to generalizations explanations in
– Making sense of a Identifying the Managing – Judging own Contextualizing grammatically
published problem dissonance progress in Visualizing correct
procedure Identifying key – How to express learning (i.e. Building analogies sentences
Predicting issues disagreement Concepts, Simplifying – Verbally express
Categorizing Identifying constructively techniques and Inferring ideas to group
Systematizing assumptions Asking for help skills) Identifying members during
Reading Defining knowns Commitment to a Validating consequences activity
– Interpreting Defining group Documenting Identifying Defining purpose
written unknowns – Shows Accepting peer review similarities/differences Rephrasing
information Applying prior responsibility Making assumptions – Develop concept in
Brainstorming knowledge for group Combining own words
Reviewing – Making concept Summarizing Writing with technical
Interpreting solutions development Making connections detail
– Interpreting – Standard Compromising – Describing the shape – Express concepts,
graphs analytical Collaborating and relationships in definitions, and
– Interpreting practices Cooperating a graph explanations
“schematic Integrating Group decision Management Recognizing using
diagrams” for solutions making contradictions scientifically
instruments – Handling Building Managing time – Deciding when data correct language
complex consensus Setting priorities is “good” or “bad”
analytic Sharing ideas – Goal setting – Deciding when an –
processing Including all group Planning action answer is sensible
calculations members – Direct group Integrating prior
Understanding progress knowledge
context (intervene if – Ability to do sensible
Ensuring solution necessary) error analysis
robustness Implementing – Choose appropriate
– QA/QC Utilizing resources instruments and
analytical effectively analysis
validation – Distributing Defining rules
representati people and Inquiring/questioning
veness material resources Challenging assumptions
Generalizing Drawing conclusions
problem solutions Finding counter
examples