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The Test of Everyday Reasoning


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The TER is a 35 item multiple choice test designed for use with the general population, community college students, high school students, college students, adolescents and adults of all ages.

It has been used successfully by employers and by educational institutions

The TER, like the daily newspaper, is designed for everyone with a sixth grade or higher reading level.

Use the TER through our on-line e-testing system, or in paper-and-pencil format with support of CapScore™


Author: Peter A. Facione, Ph.D.
© 2000

The Test of Everyday Reasoning (TER)

Testing purposes supported by the TER include to assess an individual's or group's basic reasoning skills, to secure essential information as an element in a comprehensive employment application process, educational learning outcomes assessment, to gather program evaluation on reasoning and critical thinking skills research data.

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.

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Test Characteristics

· TER Test administration time: 50 minutes suggested
· TER Format: 35 item multiple choice
· TER Support: E-Testing and CapScore scoring and statistical analysis service included
· TER Concurrent validity: Highly correlated with CCTST (r = 0.75)
· TER Construct validity: (Content validity): The TER targets those core critical thinking skills identified in The Delphi Report consensus as essential elements for workplace and educational success.
· TER Reliability: (Internal consistency): KR-20 typically range from 0.72 to 0.78, depending on testing conditions
. Recommended Companion Disposition Measure: California Measure of Mental Motivation- CM3



Use the CM3 along with the TER to assess motivation as well as reasoning skills.
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