"critically reason" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used when talking about evaluating and analyzing facts and arguments to form conclusions. For example, "We must critically reason the facts before making a decision."
It's a social-scientific attempt to determine whether students are learning what colleges claim to be teaching them — specifically, "to think critically, reason analytically, solve problems, and communicate clearly".
One such instrument in current use is the Collegiate Learning Assessment, or CLA, a standardized test designed to measure the gains in aggregate ability of undergraduates to "think critically, reason analytically, solve problems, and communicate clearly and cogently" at different points in their studies.
Not surprisingly, these students didn't seem to be learning much: after two years, 45% showed no significant improvement in their ability to think critically, reason, or write well.
Discussions generated in the treatment group's classroom afforded the students the opportunity to critically reason through the work of others and to develop possible arguments on what had been done in the erroneous exercise and what approaches might be taken to successfully find a solution to the exercise.
As a school committed to excellence, we will educate and inspire our students to be responsible, productive and ethical world citizens with skills and passions to think critically, reason critically communicate effectively and learn continuously.
For these reasons, the task of critically understanding the risks and opportunities associated with PES is both urgent and significant.
This is what a so-called Liberal Arts education seeks to provide, develop and hone: the ability to think critically, to reason, and to communicate.
But they exist for a critically important reason: to balance out the inherent power of employers over workers and, thus, to enforce a more equitable distribution of the fruits of growth.
Success ultimately isn't about knowing what Marbury stands for or the definition of fancy words like stare decisis; it is about being able to critically read, reason, and write.
But there is a critically important reason for this provision.
Yet, Mr. Bok supports working with faculty to develop accepted academic goals like deepening a student's ability to think critically and reason effectively to develop an informed opinion that is balanced and nuanced.
