AQHEd-SL resources for critical thinking skills development
2 min readDec 16, 2021
The AQHEd-SL project’s Critical Thinking Taskforce (CTTF) includes representatives from institutions across Sierra Leone, as well as INASP in the UK. As the AQHEd-SL project comes to an end, we have uploaded key training materials and resources to our repository. Below is a collection of materials and resources developed by the CTTF related to supporting critical thinking in higher education:
About critical thinking approaches in AQHEd-SL
- Adapting online approaches to context: an example from Sierra Leone’s higher education
- AQHED-SL — A supportive environment for strengthening critical thinking skills of undergraduate students
- Overview of Critical Thinking
Resources to use in critical thinking training
- Critical thinking toolkit — Collection of learning activities
- AQHED-SL Learning assessment for critical thinking skills — collection of information
- Critical thinking (CT) lessons for students in the health sector
- Stories around critical thinking (CT) and problem solving
- Critical thinking (CT) snippets — Material to introduce Higher Education students to CT
- An example of critical thinking (CT) snippets usage at Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone
- Resources and handouts for peer observation
INASP’s online critical thinking course
- PDFs of INASP’s critical thinking course with a preamble
- Introductory videos and handout on how to use the AQHEd-SL MoodleBoxes with the critical thinking online course (these videos are also available on our YouTube channel)
- Backups of INASP critical thinking online course — ‘Questioning as we learn: An introduction to critical thinking (AQHEd-SL)’ — online course for MoodleBox
Materials developed for workshops
- June 2021 workshop sessions on learning & teaching critical thinking skills at COMAHS in Sierra Leone
- June 2021 workshop sessions on learning & teaching critical thinking skills (level 2) at Njala University in Sierra Leone
- March 2021 workshop sessions on learning & teaching critical thinking skills at Njala University in Sierra Leone
- 2021 workshop sessions on learning & teaching critical thinking skills in Higher Education in Sierra Leone (level 2)
- 2020 workshop sessions on learning & teaching critical thinking skills in Higher Education in Sierra Leone (level 1)
