Critical Thinking Education and Assessment, 2nd ed.: Can Higher Order Thinking Be Tested?
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This second edition of CRITICAL THINKING EDUCATION AND ASSESSMENT: Can Higher Order Thinking be Tested? contains a series of important papers from the first edition and a new Introduction by Jan Sobocan. The essays are an important read for anyone interested in the issues raised by the teaching of critical thinking and consequent attempts to test its success. They discuss attempts to use testing to ensure educational accountability, the politics of testing regimes, and the shortcomings and the strengths of standard tests used to teach and assess students, courses, programs, and the tests themselves. The ebook can serve as a useful introduction to the questions that this raises, at the same time that it provides answers to these questions from the perspective of many different trends within contemporary argumentation theory.
This anthology’s contributors include many leading figures in the fields of informal logic, critical thinking, testing, argumentation theory, and educational theory: Carol Ann Giancarlo, Leo Groarke, Ralph H. Johnson, Robert H. Ennis, William Hare, Jan Sobocan, Roland Case, Gerald Nosich, Donald L. Hatcher, Frans H. van Eemeren, Bart Garssen, J. Anthony Blair, Linda Kaser, and Sharon Murphy.
Chapters
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Introduction to the Second Edition
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Assessing Critical Thinking Dispositions in an Era of High-Stakes Standardized Testing
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What's Wrong with the California Critical Thinking Skills Test?Critical Thinking Testing and Accountability
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The Implications of the Dialectical Tier for Critical Thinking
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Investigating and Assessing Multiple-Choice Critical Thinking Tests
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Imagination, Critical Thinking, and Teaching
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The Ontario Secondary School Literacy TestCreative Higher-Order Thinking?
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Teaching and Assessing the "Tools" for Thinking
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Central Reasoning Assessments Critical Thinking in a Discipline
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The Institutional Assessment of Critical ThinkingA Fifteen-Year Perspective
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Putting Pragma-Dialectics into Practice
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Who Teaches K-12 Critical Thinking?
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Accountability and Critical Thinking in K-12 EducationA Policy-Developer's Perspective
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Matters of GoodnessKnowing and Doing Well in the Assessment of Critical Thinking
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