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Category: Student Well-Being
Instrument Overview
The HEIghten Critical Thinking assessment is administered in a single 45-minute testing session. Each test taker answers 26 questions. The item types include critical thinking sets, short arguments or informational passages, and sets that present conditions applicable to a fictional situation. Subscore(s): Critical Thinking
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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
Post secondary
Keywords
Student Well-Being ; Social-Emotional Competence ; Responsible Decision Making
Languages
English,
Chinese,
Russian
Respondent
Student
Administration Information
Length
45 minutes
Administration
Computer,
Paper
Access and Use
Contact
Open Access
No
Setting
Classroom
Psychometrics (additional guidance)
Psychometric References
Gu, L., Ling, G., Liu, O. L., Yang, Z., Li, G., Kardanova, E., & Loyalka, P. (2020). Examining mode effects for an adapted Chinese critical thinking assessment. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1080/02602938.2020.1836121
Liu, O. L., Frankel, L., & Roohr, K. C. (2014). Assessing critical thinking in higher education: Current state and directions for next‚Äêgeneration assessment. ETS Research Report Series, 2014(1), 1-23. https://doi.org/10.1002/ets2.12009
Liu, O. L., Mao, L., Frankel, L., & Xu, J. (2016). Assessing critical thinking in higher education: the HEIghten ™ approach and preliminary validity evidence. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 41(5), 677-694. https://doi.org/10.1080/02602938.2016.1168358
Liu, O. L., Shaw, A., Gu, L., Li, G., Hu, S., Yu, N., ... & Loyalka, P. (2018). Assessing college critical thinking: preliminary results from the Chinese HEIghten® Critical Thinking assessment. Higher Education Research & Development, 37(5), 999-1014. https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2018.1467381
Shaw, A., Liu, O. L., Gu, L., Kardonova, E., Chirikov, I., Li, G., ... & Loyalka, P. (2020). Thinking critically about critical thinking: validating the Russian HEIghten® critical thinking assessment. Studies in Higher Education, 45(9), 1933-1948. https://doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2019.1672640
