Strengthening School Connectedness to Increase Student Success
Category: Student Well-Being
Instrument Overview
The CCTT is designed to assess students‘ reasoning ability. The assessment spans five subscales: Induction, Deduction, Observation, Credibility, and Assumptions.
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Organization
Topic
Student Well-Being Category
American Institutes for Research® partnered with the Annenberg Institute at Brown University to collect instruments related to student well-being.
Content
Grades
6th Grade,
7th Grade,
8th Grade,
9th Grade,
10th Grade,
11th Grade,
12th Grade,
Post secondary
Keywords
Student Well-Being ; Social-Emotional Competence ; Responsible Decision Making ; Critical Thinking ; Inference ; Deduction ; Analyticity ; Identification of Assumptions
Languages
English
Respondent
Student
Administration Information
Length
50 minutes
Administration
Computer
Psychometrics (additional guidance)
Psychometric References
Leach, S. M., Immekus, J. C., French, B. F., & Hand, B. (2020). The factorial validity of the Cornell Critical Thinking Tests: A multi-analytic approach. Thinking Skills and Creativity, 37, 100676. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tsc.2020.100676
Michael, J. J., Devaney, R. L., & Michael, W. B. (1980). The factorial validity of the Cornell Critical Thinking Test for a junior high school sample. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 40(2), 437-450. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F001316448004000223
Modjeski, R. B., & Michael, W. B. (1983). An evaluation by a panel of psychologists of the reliability and validity of two tests of critical thinking. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 43(4), 1187-1197. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F001316448304300429
