Why Test Critical Thinking in the Spring?
Strong critical thinking skills and positive critical thinking habits of mind are vital to success in every academic discipline and major field of study. Critical thinking may just be the most important and widely espoused college level student learning outcome.
Whether you are initiating a testing program or are assessing an ongoing initiative, Sprint is an important time to gather test data. Spring testing enables successful programs to:
- collect exit data on graduating students to document that they have built skills and attributes that demonstrate strength in critical thinking
- examine evidence of the effectiveness of the strategies used to train critical thinking
- capture baseline data to document current student performance to use as comparison data for future curriculum assessment.
- assess incoming students’ needs for tailored curricula in critical thinking
- to provide faculty with information that they can use in their curriculum development or revision
- demonstrate school commitment to the importance of critical thinking as a learning outcome
Well calibrated measures of critical thinking have been shown to be predictive of performance in educational programs, success in the workplace, and achievement in professional practice. For over 20 years Insight Assessment’s scenario-based objective measures of critical thinking have provided clients with data on the relative strength of each test taker and on their test taker groups overall. Contact us to learn more about our test instruments.
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