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

Table 9

Correlation between both tests in November and in May (with correction for attenuation).

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
November
(1) CCTT
(2) HCTA total^1	0.25** (0.35)
(3) HCTA C	0.21** (0.36)
(4) HCTA F	0.22** (0.37)		0.41** (0.70)
May
(5) CCTT	0.37** (0.51)	0.36** (0.49)	0.32** (0.44)	0.28** (0.39)
(6) HCTA total	0.18* (0.22)	0.52** (0.66)	0.43** (0.54)	0.46** (0.57)	0.34** (0.42)
(7) HCTA C	0.18* (0.25)	0.49** (0.67)	0.49** (0.67)	0.32 (0.44)	0.33** (0.45)
(8) HCTA F	0.11 (0.15)	0.36** (0.52)	0.18* (0.27)	0.45** (0.65)	0.22** (0.32)		0.36** (0.52)

∗Significant at 0.05 level (2-tailed), **Significant at 0.01 level (2-tailed). ¹The correlation of the total of the HCTA with the constructed-response part and the forced-choice part is left out of the analysis, because the total is partly composed of each part.