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Evaluation includes comparing, decision making, planning, judgment, and assessment based on satisfying criteria.

The thinking operation Evaluation involves the self-organization skills of criteria setting, decision making, planning, and self-evaluation. With careful planning, teachers can teach these skills within any subject area. In language arts students can develop self-organization skills by setting criteria for writing or stating strategies for reading. In math, students can plan how to solve a problem and consciously make decisions about which strategy to use in the solution.

Social studies, science, and art projects offer particularly rich opportunities to learn the thinking and social emotional skills involved in self-organized learning. Students can make decisions about and plan what information to include in projects and how the final project will be presented. After presenting projects, students can self-evaluate their own projects and those of their peers.

Evaluation is related to Ethical Reasoning through the skills they have in common. The skills of setting criteria, making decisions, planning, and assessing are important in the processes of both Evaluation and Ethical Reasoning. However, making ethical decisions requires consideration for others in the decision-making process.

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