California Measure of Mental Motivation (CM3)

Search and Filter

The CM3 is sold by Insight Assessment and is designed to measure the degree to which a student feels that they are cognitively engaged and mentally motivated toward intellectual activities that involve reasoning. This test contains seven scales of critical thinking: (a) truth‐seeking, (b) open‐mindedness, (c) analyticity, (d) systematicity, (e) confidence in reasoning, (f) inquisitiveness, and (g) maturity of judgment. It offers online and paper formats and a Likert response type. 

Content

Grades
9th Grade,
10th Grade,
11th Grade,
12th Grade,
Post secondary
Languages
English
Chinese
Spanish
Other
Other Language/s
Arabic, Greek, Turkish
Respondent
Student

Administration Information

Length
20 minutes
Administration
Computer
Paper

Access and Use

Price

Not free, must request quote

Contact

California Academic Press
Insight Assessment
650-697-5628
1735 N 1st Street, Suite 306
San Jose, CA 95112-4511 USA

Open Access
No
Use in Research

Ernst, J., & Monroe, M. (2004). The effects of environment‐based education on students' critical thinking skills and disposition toward critical thinking. Environmental Education Research10(4), 507-522. https://doi.org/10.1080/1350462042000291038

Ransdell, S. (2010). Online activity, motivation, and reasoning among adult learners. Computers in Human Behavior, 26(1), 70-73. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2009.09.002

Psychometrics

Scoring
Computer scoring
Manual scoring
Referencing
Norm-referenced
Psychometric References

https://www.insightassessment.com/wp-content/uploads/ia/pdf/CM3-Validity-Reliability.pdf

Item Type
Likert