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

Table 5

Interrater correlations and differences between the means between two raters on the constructed-response subscales of the HCTA.

Subscale—constructed-response items	Interrater correlations		Differences between the means of two raters
	𝑟 in the sample	𝑟 in the manual	𝑡	df	𝑃	Cohen’s 𝑑
Thinking as hypothesis testing	.85	.75	4.632	49	.000	0.37
Verbal reasoning	.84	.60	−0.414	49	.681	−0.03
Argument analysis	.88	.70	−1.531	49	.132	−0.10
Likelihood and uncertainty	.89	.82	3.357	49	.002	0.23
Decision making and problem solving	.84	.53	1.014	49	.315	0.08
Constructed-response part	.93	.83	3.063	49	.004	0.16