Strengthening School Connectedness to Increase Student Success
Category: Student Well-Being and Mental Health
The CCTST (Facione, 1990; P. A. Facione & N. C. Facione, 1994) was developed, validated, and used for assessing students’ CT skills. It is a standardised, 34-item multiple choice test, non discipline-specific that targets core critical thinking skills. Each item on the CCTST is assigned to one of three subscales: Analysis, Evaluation, and Inference.
Content
Grades
9th Grade,
10th Grade,
11th Grade,
12th Grade,
Post secondary
Languages
English
Chinese
Spanish
Other
Other Language/s
Arabic, Dutch, French, German, Hebrew, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Portuguese, Thai, Turkish, Vietnamese
Respondent
Student
Administration Information
Length
45 minutes
Administration
Computer
Paper
Access and Use
Price
Price quotes available $10/test, or $70 for 10 tests (*can be purchased with CCTDI)
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
Brown, F. W., & Bielinska-Kwapisz, A. (2015). Understanding the nature and determinants of critical thinking among senior business undergraduate students. Journal of Education for Business, 90(7), 359–368. https://doi.org/10.1080/08832323.2015.1068156
Bycio, P., &; Allen, J. S. (2009). The California Critical Thinking Skills Test and business school performance. American Journal of Business Education, 2(8), 1-8. https://doi.org/10.19030/ajbe.v2i8.4593
Stephenson, N. S., Miller, I. R., & Sadler-Mcknight, N. P. (2019). Impact of peer-led team learning and the science writing and workshop template on the critical thinking skills of first-year chemistry students. Journal of Chemical Education, 96(5), 841–849. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jchemed.8b00836
Psychometrics
Scoring
Computer scoring
Manual scoring
Referencing
Norm-referenced
Psychometric References
Facione, Peter A. (1990) The California Critical Thinking Skills Test--College Level. Technical Report #1. Experimental Validation and Content Validity (ED327549). https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED327549.pdf
Facione, P. A. (1990). The California Critical Thinking Skills Test--College Level. Technical Report# 2. Factors Predictive of CT Skills. https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED327550.pdf
Item Type
Multiple choice
