Cornell Critical Thinking Test.
CCTT
- What it measures
- Critical thinking - induction, deduction, credibility/observation, identification of assumptions, meaning and fallacies; assessed at two difficulty levels.
- Length and format
- Level X = 71; Level Z = 52. multiple-choice critical-thinking items (performance/ability test)
- Language versions
- Adapted/translated in several educational research contexts (e.g. ES, FR, AR, FA, ZH versions reported in validation studies).
- Normative data
- No normative data held in our reference library for this instrument. That is a statement about our library, not about the published literature.
- Licence
- copyrighted - commercial
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- Reference
- Ennis, R. H., Millman, J., & Tomko, T. N. (2005). Cornell Critical Thinking Tests Levels X & Z, Administration Manual (5th ed.). The Critical Thinking Co. https://www.criticalthinking.com/
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