Testing for the Disposition to Think Critically

In order to tesl for critical thinking dispositions, the presence of the requisite critical thinking abilities must first be established. Otherwise, it is always a plausible counterexplanation of failure to use certain abilities that they were not possessed. If a person spontaneously uses some abili...

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Main Author: Stephen P. Norris
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Windsor 1992-01-01
Series:Informal Logic
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Online Access:https://informallogic.ca/index.php/informal_logic/article/view/2538
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description In order to tesl for critical thinking dispositions, the presence of the requisite critical thinking abilities must first be established. Otherwise, it is always a plausible counterexplanation of failure to use certain abilities that they were not possessed. If a person spontaneously uses some ability on a task, then it is often legitimate to conclude that the person has both the ability and the disposition to use it. However, if the person does not use the ability spontaneously, the conclusion is ambiguous. The person might not have the ability, or might have the ability but not the disposition to use it, or not the disposition to use it in the specific circumstances of the presented task. This paper proposes methods of critical thinking testing designed to deal with each of these possibilities.
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spelling doaj.art-5ba08f484eb443d68333e2e1d257f0692022-12-22T03:16:24ZengUniversity of WindsorInformal Logic0824-25772293-734X1992-01-0114210.22329/il.v14i2.2538Testing for the Disposition to Think CriticallyStephen P. NorrisIn order to tesl for critical thinking dispositions, the presence of the requisite critical thinking abilities must first be established. Otherwise, it is always a plausible counterexplanation of failure to use certain abilities that they were not possessed. If a person spontaneously uses some ability on a task, then it is often legitimate to conclude that the person has both the ability and the disposition to use it. However, if the person does not use the ability spontaneously, the conclusion is ambiguous. The person might not have the ability, or might have the ability but not the disposition to use it, or not the disposition to use it in the specific circumstances of the presented task. This paper proposes methods of critical thinking testing designed to deal with each of these possibilities.https://informallogic.ca/index.php/informal_logic/article/view/2538critical thinking testingcritical thinking dispositionstest validitydispositions
spellingShingle Stephen P. Norris
Testing for the Disposition to Think Critically
Informal Logic
critical thinking testing
critical thinking dispositions
test validity
dispositions
title Testing for the Disposition to Think Critically
title_full Testing for the Disposition to Think Critically
title_fullStr Testing for the Disposition to Think Critically
title_full_unstemmed Testing for the Disposition to Think Critically
title_short Testing for the Disposition to Think Critically
title_sort testing for the disposition to think critically
topic critical thinking testing
critical thinking dispositions
test validity
dispositions
url https://informallogic.ca/index.php/informal_logic/article/view/2538
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