Research Article
The Assessment of Critical Thinking Critically Assessed in Higher Education: A Validation Study of the CCTT and the HCTA
Table 11
Students’ opinions on the HCTA and the CCTT (
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| Question | HCTA | CCTT | | df | | M | SD | M | SD |
| Test is difficult | 4.84 | 1.13 | 5.52 | .94 | 5,956 | 131 | .000 | Test is too difficult | 3.20 | 1.39 | 4.11 | 1.56 | 5,472 | 130 | .000 | Test is fascinating | 4.54 | 1.26 | 3.49 | 1.28 | 7,418 | 127 | .000 | Takes too long to fill in | 5.05 | 1.50 | 4.41 | 1.55 | 3,832 | 131 | .000 | Too much reading to do my best | 4.14 | 1.63 | 4.34 | 1.66 | 1,411 | 130 | .161 | Too much writing to do my best | 3.12 | 1.55 | / | / | | | | Would have done better in case of constructed-response opportunity | / | / | 3.26 | 1.73 | | | |
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