Critical Thinking Assessment of College Students

Autor: Anthony J. Aretz, M. Todd Bolen, Kimberly E. Devereux
Rok vydání: 1997
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Zdroj: Journal of College Reading and Learning. 28:12-23
ISSN: 2332-7413
1079-0195
DOI: 10.1080/10790195.1997.10850050
Popis: This paper presents a framework for the assessment of critical thinking in college students. Unfortunately, due to the complex nature of critical thinking and the lack of a consensus definition, no single assessment instrument completely captures critical thinking ability. As a result, we propose a multi-method approach focused on the assessment of three major components of critical thinking—knowledge, thinking skills, and attitudes. Each of these components is a fundamental ingredient of critical thinking, and each requires its own assessment. Knowledge is discipline specific and will require a customized assessment tool However, our experience with three assessment tools shows the Reflective Thinking Appraisal (Wood, 1994) is useful for assessing thinking skills, and the California Critical Thinking Dispositions Inventory ([CCTDI] Facione, Facione, & Sanchez, 1994) is useful for assessing attitudes. We also examined the Learning Environment Preferences Survey (Moore, 1988), but it does not seem to be as...
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