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The CCTST targets the concept of critical thinking articulated in the Delphi Report.
Click here for more information on this international consensus conceptualization of
critical thinking.

 

 

The California Critical Thinking Skills Test Family of CT Skills Measures

Lead Author: Peter A. Facione, Ph.D.

Called "The Gold Standard" of critical thinking skills tests...

Test Name	Recommended Level
"California Critical Thinking Skills Test - Form 2000" Form 2K © 2000 Form A ©1990 Form B ©1992	Undergraduate and Graduate Students, & Adult Learners
"Health Sciences Reasoning Test" HSRT ©2006	Undergraduate and Graduate Students, & Health Sciences Professionals
"Test of Everyday Reasoning" TER © 2000	Community College Students, High School Students, & Adults
"Business Critical Thinking Skills Test" BCTST ©2007	Undergraduate and Graduate Students, & Business and Management Professionals
"CCTST - M20" CCTST-M20 ©2008	Grades 6 through 12

 

Construct and Content Validity: The CCTST family of critical thinking skills tests is based on the conceptualization of critical thinking articulated in the Expert Consensus Statement on College Level Critical Thinking (1990) known as

The Delphi Report. This concept was supported by an independent replication research study of policy-makers, employers, and academics which was conducted at Penn State University, sponsored by US Department of Education.

Scores Reported: The CCTST Total Score targets the strength or weakness of one's skill in making reflective, reasoned judgments about what to believe or what to do. The CCTST generates several scores relating to critical thinking.

• Overall critical thinking skills total score and norm-group percentile.
• Sub-scale scores by the classical categories of Inductive Reasoning and Deductive Reasoning
• Sub-scale scores by the contemporary categories of Analysis, Inference, and Evaluation

Click here for detailed CCTST scale descriptions for all levels and tests in the CCTST family.


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The "California Critical Thinking Skills Test" Form 2000

Intended Subjects: The CCTST Form 2000 is designed for college students and adults. It has been most widely used with traditional aged college and university undergraduate students, with students in processional masters degree programs, and with community college students to gather data on individual and group critical thinking skill levels as compared to locally developed or IA developed national norms. For other forms of the CCTST please see the chart above or their separate pages on this website.

Purposes: The CCTST has been used nationally and internationally for learning outcomes assessment, performance funding, program evaluation, professional development, training, and as an element in application, admissions, and personnel evaluation processes.

Format: All forms of the CCTST are 34-item multiple choice format

Administration time: 45 minutes or untimed

E-Testing Availability: Yes

Paper-And-Pencil Format Support: CapScore™ scanning, scoring, and data analysis

Forms: Form 2000 of the CCTST enriches the contexts for the application of critical thinking skills by including questions which present information d in charts and graphs as well as using text. Form 2000 is, therefore, regarded as an important advancement over Forms A and B. Click here for more information on Form 2000.

Form B was developed to be alternative form of the original CCTST, known as Form A. Forms A and B parallel each other item for item and response for response. Thus, to the extent reasonably possible for practical educational testing purposes, Forms A and B of the CCTST are treated as functionally equivalent forms of the tool. The Test Manual in the Specimen Kit provides further detail on the conceptual and statistical basis for the functional equivalence of the two forms.

Reliability:

• CT Disposition Measure Companion Tool Recommended : California Critical Thinking Disposition Inventory (CCTDI).

  Authorized Languages Available: To check the latest list of CCTST translations click here.
  
  Technical Studies: The Test Manual included in the Specimen Kit references a number of studies including construct, content, and concurrent validity; student and instructor factors associated with critical thinking skills; item discrimination and item difficulty; multiple regression, analyses of covariance, reliability within various testing contexts; gender, ethnicity/race, age, academic major, institutional features, faculty characteristics and critical thinking skills, overall and sub-scale norms and percentiles. Click here for the four ERIC Document Technical Reports from the initial validation study of CCTST Form A.

  Variable	r	n	Sample	p
  GRE Total	0.719	143	A	<.001
  GRE Analytic	0.708	143	A	<.001
  GRE Verbal	0.716	143	A	<.001
  GRE Quantitative	0.582	143	A	<.001
  ACT	0.402	446	B	<.001
  CCTDI Total	0.41	193	D	<.05
  CCTDI Total	0.201	1557	B	<.001
  Watson-Glaser CTA	0.405	139	B	<.001
  Watson-Glaser CTA	0.544	65	C	<.001
  SAT Verbal	0.545	123	B	<.001
  SAT Verbal	0.55	333	E	<.001
  SAT Math	0.422	123	B	<.001
  SAT Math	0.44	333	E	<.001
  Nelson-Denny	0.49	42	E	<.001

  
  Sample A= Nursing Graduate Students - CCTST (See Nursing Education Study.)
  Sample B= Nursing Students - CCTST Entry (See Nursing Education Study.)
  Sample C= Nursing Students - CCTST Exit (See Nursing Education Study.)
  Sample D= English Speaking 10th Graders - CCTST
  Sample E= 1990 Validation Study - CCTST Pretest (See Technical Report #1.)