Other General QualificationsThinking and Reasoning Skills Level 2 Award

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The status of this qualification has changed. From January 2011 Level 2 Thinking and Reasoning Skills is now accredited as a full general qualification and is no longer a pilot. This means that centres are not required to be registered to deliver this qualification.

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The Thinking and Reasoning Skills specification has been updated. Editorial changes have been made to the diagram on page 9 only.

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Overview

OCR is pleased to announce an exciting qualification in Thinking and Reasoning Skills. We have developed this in response to a number of centres identifying a lack of a qualification in this discipline area for Level 2 students.

The qualification has an interesting mix of reasoning skills and broader thinking skills, through which learners have the opportunity to develop thinking in its fullest sense.

These skills have a broad range of applications and students should be able to benefit from these in a variety of contexts, both academic (e.g. in other school subjects across the science - arts spectrum) and everyday life (e.g. evaluating a news report, information on the internet; unpicking the reasoning of other people's arguments and forming well-founded arguments of their own).

Aims

Some of the skills learners will develop through a course in Thinking and Reasoning Skills:

  • Conceptual thinking skills in order to explore ideas and their connections.
  • Enquiry skills enabling them to generate their own questions in relation to evidence and information.
  • Problem solving skills enabling them to organise and analyse data so that conclusions can be drawn from it.
  • The ability to question evidence for relevance, significance and credibility.
  • Reasoning skills so that they can analyse arguments, evaluate reasoning and develop reasoned arguments of their own.