About
The "CCTST M20"
Recommended
Test Takers: Children and adolescents in the sixth through twelfth
grades, or with adults who have comparable reading skills.
Testing
purposes: to measure an individual's or group's basic reasoning
skills for purposes such as educational learning outcomes assessment
or to gather program evaluation on reasoning and critical thinking
skills research data.
Test Administration Time Recommendation: 45 minutes or untimed
Format:
20 item multiple choice
Modalities: On-line or CapScore paper-and-pencil
Scores
Generated: Overall reasoning skills total score and norm-group
percentile. Sub-scale scores by the contemporary categories of Analysis,
Inference, and Evaluation. Traditional categorizations
of Inductive Reasoning and Deductive Reasoning are
also available sub-scales. Click
here for descriptions of the scale scores.
Item
Formats: Items present needed information for test takers using
both diagrammatic and text-based contexts. The items range from
those requiring an analysis of the meaning of a given sentence to
those requiring much more complex integration of critical thinking
skills. Some items require that the correct inference be drawn from
a set of assumptions, some require that an inference which is provided
be properly evaluated. Some require that the proper evaluation not
only be determined, but also justified by the most cogent reason.
Others require that objections to stated inferences be evaluated,
and that the evaluation of these objections then be justified. Additional
items are quantitative in nature and some require students to analyze
charts and graphs.
Construct validity: (Content validity): As a member of the
CCTST family of tests, this form targets those core critical thinking
skills identified in
The Delphi Report consensus as essential elements
for workplace and educational success.
Recommended
Companion CT Habits of Mind Measure: CM3
Level II Plus
To
check the latest list of CCTST Form M20 translations click here.
