Strengthening School Connectedness to Increase Student Success
Category: Student Well-Being
Instrument Overview
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.
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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
9th Grade,
10th Grade,
11th Grade,
12th Grade,
Post secondary
Keywords
Student Well-Being ; Social-Emotional Competence ; Responsible Decision Making ; Critical Thinking ; Reasoning ; Analyticity ; Evaluation ; Explanation ; Induction ; Deduction
Languages
English,
Chinese,
Spanish,
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
Contact
California Academic Press
Insight Assessment
650-697-5628
1735 N 1st Street, Suite 306
San Jose, CA 95112-4511 USA
Open Access
No
Setting
Classroom
Psychometrics (additional guidance)
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
