Friday, July 15, 2011

ART Progress Fall Critical Thinking Institute Deliverables Assessment Next Steps

Instructional Portfolio component Intervention

Drop Boxes & Forms ARC Scenario Critical Thinking Activity/RLO ART Action Items (May, June, July) Midpoint Survey Session Description for Fall Critical Thinking

Institute Fall ART Meeting Dates

Watson-Glaser CriticalThinking Appraisal (1980), byGoodwin Watson and EdwardMaynard Glaser. HarcourtAssessment, Inc.

http://www.pearsonassessments.com/HAIWEB/Cultures/en-us/Productdetail.htm?Pid=015-8191-013

General-ContentMulti-Aspect (moredetailed analysisgiven by Fawkes6)Multiple-Choice

“sections on induction, assumptionidentification, deduction, judgingwhether a conclusion followsbeyond a reasonable doubt, andargument evaluation.”

The California Critical ThinkingSkills Test: College Level(1990), by Peter Facione

http://www.insightassessment.com/test-cctst.html

General-ContentMulti-Aspect (moredetailed analysisgiven by Fawkes8)Multiple-Choice

Multiple-choice assessinginterpretation, argument analysisand evaluation, deduction,induction, basic statisticalreasoning, and puzzle-solving.

Additional Resources for Assessing Critical Thinking Interventions and Activities

The Cornell Critical ThinkingTest, Level Z (2005), byRobert H. Ennis and JasonMillman. The Critical ThinkingCompany.

http://www.criticalthinking.com/series/055/index_c.html

General-ContentMulti-Aspect (moredetailed analysisgiven by Fawkes13)Multiple-Choice

“[S]ections on induction, credibility,prediction and experimentalplanning, fallacies (especiallyequivocation), deduction, definition,and assumption identification.”

INTERNATIONAL CRITICAL THINKING BASIC CONCEPTS & UNDERSTANDING ONLINE TEST

http://www.criticalthinking.org/courses/critical_thinkg_test1.cfm

The test is a three-part, 100 item test

It is based on the substantive approach to critical thinking developed by Paul and his colleagues at the Foundation for Critical Thinking during the last quarter century. It is the only critical thinking test that approaches critical thinking as a transdisciplinary system of interconnected concepts, principles, and understandings. It focuses on the five essential dimensions of critical thinking:1. the analysis of thought. 2. the assessment of thought3. the dispositions of thought4. the skills and abilities of thought5. the obstacles or barriers to critical thought.

The Ennis-Weir Critical Thinking Essay Test (1985), by Robert H. Ennis and Eric Weir. Critical Thinking Press and Software (formerly Midwest Publications), PO Box 448, Pacific Grove CA 93950.

http://www.criticalthinking.net/CTTestList1199.html

Aimed at grades 7 through college. Also intended to be used as a teaching material. Incorporates getting the point, seeing the reasons and assumptions, stating one's point, offering good reasons, seeing other possibilities (including other possible explanations), and responding to and avoiding equivocation, irrelevance, circularity, reversal of an if-then (or other conditional) relationship, overgeneralization, credibility problems, and the use of emotive language to persuade.

Additional resources for assessing Critical Thinking Interventions and Activities

Instructional Portfolio components Systematic Observation Observations Results Analysis Peer Evaluation Key Issues Results Synthesis Context of Knowledge Base

Drop Boxes & Forms ART Action Items (August, September,

October, November, December) Portfolio Report Session Description for Spring Critical Thinking

Institute Final Survey

Date Event LocationFriday, September 2, 9:00-11:00 a.m.

QEC Meeting & Critical Thinking Subcommittee Meeting EpiCenter – 2-304

Friday, September 23, 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Fall Critical Thinking Institute Clearwater Campus

Friday, October 21, 9:00-11:00 a.m. Faculty Champion Meeting EpiCenter – 1-310

Friday, November 18, 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. ARC Scoring Workshop DO-102 - Consular

Conference RoomFriday, December 9, 9:00-11:00 a.m. Faculty Champion Meeting EpiCenter – 1-310

*Subject to Change (Revised 6/1/11)