Critical thinking

Critical thinking is the process of thinking, the subject matter is judged  whether it is true or false. I heard this term when I was taking Phil 194 class. According to a statement by Michael Scriven and Richard Paul for the    ( presented at the 8th Annual International Conference on Critical Thinking and Education Reform, summer 1987), critical thinking is the intellectually  disciplined process of actively and skillfully conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and/ or evaluating information gathered from, or generated by, observation, experiences, reflection, reasoning, or communication, as a guide to belief and action.
http://www.criticalthinking.org/pages/defining-critical-thinking/766. The experts identifies a particular process that one must engaged in to think critically. The connections between critical thinking and IM 204 research strategies are both try  to evaluate information as a path to belief by reasoning or experiencing it.