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ERIC Number: EJ1267826
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2020
Pages: 16
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-0307-5079
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Thinking Critically about Critical Thinking: Validating the Russian HEIghten® Critical Thinking Assessment
Shaw, Amy; Liu, Ou Lydia; Gu, Lin; Kardonova, Elena; Chirikov, Igor; Li, Guirong; Hu, Shangfeng; Yu, Ningning; Ma, Liping; Guo, Fei; Su, Qi; Shi, Jinghuan; Shi, Henry; Loyalka, Prashant
Studies in Higher Education, v45 n9 p1933-1948 2020
Critical thinking has been identified as a crucial general skill contributing to academic and career success in the twenty-first century. With the increasing demands of the modern workplace and a global trend of accountability in higher education, educators and employers pay great attention to the development of students' critical thinking skills throughout their training. Therefore, there is an urgent need worldwide for an updated and comprehensive assessment tool of college-level critical thinking. This paper reports on the preliminary validation for the Russian version of the "HEIghten"® Critical Thinking assessment developed by Educational Testing Service (ETS). Based on a large Russian college student sample (N = 1060), we evaluated the psychometric quality of the items, individual and institution-level reliability, external validity, and student perceptions. Overall, the results suggested good psychometric quality, except that a few items showed low discriminating power and should be further examined with a second wave of data collection. IRT analyses revealed testlet effects and supported the essentially unidimensional structure of the measure. Appropriate correlations with external criteria provided support for the measure's convergent validity. Implications of the preliminary validation study results and the future research agenda, especially the need to collect longitudinal data, are discussed.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Russia
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