thinkBASICS

CRITICAL THINKING BASICS FOR ENTERING & PRE-COLLEGE STUDENTS

PROGRAM OVERVIEW

thinkBASICS is a one-hour online module designed to give pre-entry and entering college students a basic set of critical thinking skills they need to succeed in college-level coursework.

When used across a student cohort, thinkBASICS provides a shared set of skills and vocabulary for reasoning collectively with peers.

 

PILOT PROGRAM LAUNCHING SUMMER 2025

JOIN THE PILOT

 

ThinkerAnalytix is seeking college and university partners to pilot thinkBASICS with pre-entry and orientation student cohorts in summer 2025. As part of this free pilot, the ThinkerAnalytix team will:

  • Meet with university faculty, leadership, and staff to demo thinkBASICS
  • Onboard those in supervisory positions to the thinkBASICS platform
  • Provide support for supervisors and IT staff as they make thinkBASICS available to students through university platforms
  • Administer (brief) pre and post-testing and surveys to gauge student learning and the student experience
  • Give tech support and tutoring to students through an online chat
  • Debrief with program leaders to gather feedback about the thinkBASICS experience
  • Suggest follow-up programs that can deepen and strengthen students' critical thinking skills in first & second years

Please email [email protected] to request more information.

AFTER thinkBASICS, WHAT'S NEXT?

thinkBASICS is the first in a series of online programs designed to build critical thinking skills for pre-college, first-year, and second-year students. Explore our in-depth programs for college students below.

BUILD CRITICAL THINKERS

Through our course and optional puzzle game, students can master a deeper set of reasoning skills in a custom, personalized learning platform.

Optional advanced course content synthesizes the skills and explores applications to more complex academic and policy topic areas.

We foster a network of faculty and education leadership to help us innovate for future students.

thinkARGUMENTS

BUILD CULTURE

A step-by-step method for students, faculty, staff, and administrators charged with leading productive discourse on campus.

The goal? To build cultures of trust, collaboration, and innovation, even in the face of strong disagreement.

Designed to easily integrate with training programs for students, faculty, staff, and leadership.

thinkCULTURE

COMING FALL 2025

TRUSTED BY LEADERS IN EDUCATION

ABOUT US

thinkBASICS is offered by ThinkerAnalytix, a non-profit organization spun out of the Harvard University Department of Philosophy. We leverage thousands of years of tools from philosophy and custom technology to offer a portfolio of programs that teach critical thinking and productive disagreement as an essential part of learning and working communities.