Instructional Interventions Affecting Critical Thinking Skills and Dispositions: A Stage One Meta-Analysis of Empirical Evidence http://www.campbellcollaboration.org /artman2/uploads/1/Education_Abrami.pdf This meta-analysis conducted at CSLP at Concordia University (Montreal, Canada) investigates the link between instructional interventions and CT outcomes. Follow the presentation on this study: http://www.campbellcollaboration.org /artman2/uploads/1/Education_Abrami.pdf continue...

The CAT Instrument is a unique tool designed to assess and promote the improvement of critical thinking and real-world problem solving skills. The instrument is the product of extensive development, testing, and refinement with a broad range of institutions, faculty, and students across the country. The National Science Foundation has provided support for many of these activities. Narrated Overview (in Flash format) – watch it, really interesting material to listen Skills Assessed by continue...

In the past two years, educators across the institution have begun developing a Critical and Integrative Thinking Rubric, to highlight the importance of integrating ideas and perspectives across traditional boundaries of viewpoint, practice, and discipline. Within the General Studies program, faculty from General Education, History, English, General Studies, Comparative Ethnic Studies, and Career Services, as well as assessment specialists from the Center for Teaching, Learning, and continue...

This is a tool for assessing CT across the curriculum http://openedpractices.org/files/CT%20rubric%20from%20Flickr.jpg continue...

These critical thinking rubrics, one for each of the QEP’s critical thinking student learning outcomes, represent a synthesis of approaches to what critical thinking is, what it looks like, and what it means to do it well. The rubrics employ the Universal Intellectual Standards developed by the Foundation for Critical Thinking (FCT); additionally, the majority of the criteria were adapted from aspects of critical thinking included in the textbook Critical Thinking: Tools for Taking Charge continue...

http://openedpractices.org/files/rubric_critical_thinking%20PDX.pdf Portland State University Critical Thinking Rubric continue...

Sample of a Rating Guide for Critical Thinking http://openedpractices.org/files/George%20Mason%20Critical%20Thinking%20Rubric.pdf (By George Mason) continue...

In this paper, we recommend theoretically grounded and empirically supported strategies teachers can use to improve the development and assessment of students’ thinking skills. Our transdisciplinary approach links a series of increasingly complex Steps for Better Thinking to two theories from developmental psychology:  Fischer’s dynamic skill theory (Fischer, 1980; Fischer & Bidell, 1998) and King and Kitchener’s (1994) reflective judgment model of cognitive development.  We use continue...

Dr.  Peter A. Facione Santa Clara University Dr.  Noreen C. Facione, R.N., FNP University of California,  San Francisco By Dr.  Peter A. Facione, Santa Clara University and Dr.  Noreen C. Facione, R.N., FNP, University of California,  San Francisco - http://openedpractices.org/files/Holistic%20CT%20rubric.pdf continue...

This is an example of a test, for which the person can select answers that best describe him/her: http://openedpractices.org/files/CT%20self%20assessment%20Valencia%20CC.pdf and later get the scores of the test! (By Valencia Community College) continue...