Course Highlights
  • Apply critical thinking skills throughout the analytic process
  • Identify and mitigate biases to reveal unstated assumptions
  • Refine and clarify intelligence questions
  • Conduct research to identify existing data and gather new evidence
  • Select and apply appropriate analytic techniques
  • Reevaluate and revalidate previous analytic conclusions.
Curriculum

2 Topics
Welcome and overview
The need for intelligence analyst certifications

7 Topics
Course administration and supplemental material
Thinking about thinking I; critical thinking
Critical thinking quiz
Thinking about thinking II; logical probable and plausible reasoning
Analytic pitfalls
Insights into problem solving
Section review quiz

2 Topics
Problem restatement
Section review quiz

3 Topics
Gathering the evidence
Evaluating the evidence
Section review quiz

7 Topics
Selecting the right technique
Realizing the power of analytics: arming the human mind
Sorting chronologies and timelines
The matrix
Decision/event trees
Link analysis
Analysis of competing hypotheses (ACH)

3 Topics
Argument evaluation and reevaluation
Final certification exam
Bonus Lecture

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Level 1 Intelligence Analyst Certification

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