Complex Reasoning

Complex Reasoning Processes

Higher order thinking skills are one of the 5 focus areas for learner motivation, engagement, and achievement.

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JRSCD will be using the work of Debra Pickering, Bea McGarvey, and Dr. Robert Marzano for our complex reasoning learning progressions. This work is through the Dimensions of Learning developed to provide learning facilitators with the instructional strategies for the different types of knowledge and complex reasoning processes for learning.

Each of the scales in the content areas indicate a level of complex reasoning the learners should utilize in order to show mastery of the content. The proficiency scales are built using the taxonomy of complex reasoning processes (see document below). Ultimately every instructional task and assessment will include these reasoning processes and they will be deliberately instructed to and assessed as part of a practitioners instructional design.