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The Challenge of Assessing Critical Thinking
Reflective Judgment Approach
University of Minnesota
Target: General use
Format: Analysis of faulty logic
The Test of Everyday Reasoning (1998) by Peter Facione
California Academic Press, 217 La Cruz Ave., Millbrae, CA 94030
Target: General use
Format: Derived from The California Critical Thinking Skills Test (listed above), with
choices of justifications added. Multiple-choice.
Watson–Glaser Critical Thinking Appraisal (1980) by Goodwin Watson and
E M. Glaser
The Psychological Corporation, 555 Academic Court, San Antonio TX 78204
Target: General use
Format: Multiple-choice, sections on induction, assumption identification, deduction,
judging whether a conclusion follows beyond a reasonable doubt, and argument evalu-
ation plausibility, reasonableness, and realism of student responses; graded on the basis
of the number of responses judged successful (from 0 to 4). Yields total subtest score
plus part scores in social reasoning, scientific reasoning, and artistic reasoning.
Web site: http://harcourtassessment.com/haiweb/cultures/en-us/productdetail.htm?pid=
015-8191-013
Adapted from An Annotated List of Critical Thinking Tests, prepared by Robert H.
Ennis, University of Illinois.