The Assessment of Critical Thinking Critically Assessed in Higher Education: A Validation Study of the CCTT and the HCTA

Table 6

Internal consistencies (Cronbach’s 𝛼).

Scale	November		May
	𝛼	Standardized 𝛼	𝛼	Standardizedα
HCTA
Total	0.53	0.55	0.64	0.64
Constructed-response part (C)	0.34	0.37	0.53	0.53
Forced-choice part (F)	0.35	0.37	0.48	0.44
Hypothesis testing	0.42	0.46	0.39	0.44
Verbal reasoning	0.21	0.17	0.28	0.28
Argument analysis	0.37	0.38	0.42	0.44
Likelihood and uncertainty	0.18	0.31	0.31	0.34
Decision making and problem solving	0.26	0.25	0.35	0.32
CCTT
Total	0.52		0.52
I Deduction	0.07		0.17
II Meaning & fallacies	0.30		0.14
III Observation & credibility of sources	0.17		0.25
IV/V Induction	0.22		0.15
VI/VII Definition & assumption identification	0.32		0.42