Research Article
The Assessment of Critical Thinking Critically Assessed in Higher Education: A Validation Study of the CCTT and the HCTA
Table 8
Content validity: match between the used definition of CT and the elements measured in the two tests.
| Aspects of CT | HCTA | CCTT |
| Skills | | | Purposeful, self-regulatory judgment | All | All | Interpretation | Verbal reasoning | VI Identification of definitions and assumptions VII Identification of assumptions | Analysis | Argument analysis + situation 1 and 2 | I Deduction | Evaluation | Verbal reasoning | II Meaning and fallacies | Inference | Argument analysis + situation 1 and 2 | I Deduction | Explanation of evidential and conceptual considerations | Verbal reasoning | VI Identification of definitions and assumptions VII Identification of assumptions | Explanation of methodological considerations | Hypothesis testing Likelihood and uncertainty | III Observation and credibility of sources IV Induction (hypothesis testing) V Induction (planning experiments) | Explanation of criteriological considerations | Decision making and problem solving Likelihood and uncertainty | II Meaning and fallacies | Explanation of contextual considerations | Decision making and problem solving Likelihood and uncertainty | IV Induction (hypothesis testing) V Induction (planning experiments) | Disposition | | | The ideal critical thinker | Constructed-response items | / |
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