Educators at all levels are concerned with the development of their students critical thinking skills. But how can we reliably measure any change in this ability, and how long does it take? This book summarizes the results of a two-year investigation of cognitive development in college students. Student performance on exams at different levels of Blooms Taxonomy was used to estimate improvement in higher-level thinking. The California Critical Thinking Skills Test (CCTST) was used as an independent and discipline-neutral estimate of this ability. Data analysis confirmed the cumulative...
Educators at all levels are concerned with the development of their students critical thinking skills. But how can we reliably measure any change in t...