Collaborative Critical Thinking

Abstract

Command and Control (C2) organizations must operate decisively and synchronously, and do so in highly uncertain and dynamic settings. Individuals succeed in these settings in part by thinking critically about their assessments and plans. We argue that individual team members collaborate in their application of critical thinking in a process called collaborative critical thinking. We are developing this concept of Collaborative Critical Thinking (CCT) within C2 teams from three research threads concerning 1) individual critical thinking, 2) team process and architecture, and 3) human performance in information age warfare. This paper describes our CCT framework and the tools and training we are developing to improve CCT among team members.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 2003
Accession Number
ADA466768

Entities

People

  • Jared Freeman
  • Kathleen P. Hess

Organizations

  • Aptima (United States)

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • C4I
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aerial Warfare
  • Air Force
  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Applied Psychology
  • Battle Damage Assessment
  • Command And Control
  • Communications Intelligence
  • Electronic Intelligence
  • Human Factors Engineering
  • Information Warfare
  • Military Research
  • National Security
  • Psychological Phenomena And Processes
  • Psychology
  • Thinking
  • Training
  • Warfare

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Marine Propulsion Engineering and Naval Architecture
  • Systems Analysis and Design
  • Team-Based Human-Centered Cognitive Task Decision Making and Information Performance.

Technology Areas

  • Fully Networked C3
  • Fully Networked C3 - Command and Control