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- Title: Jan Sobocan and Leo Groarke with Ralph H. Johnson and Frederick S. Ellett, Jr (Eds.) (2009). Critical Thinking Education and Assessment: Can Higher Order Thinking be Tested?
- Author : Canadian Journal of Education
- Release Date : January 01, 2010
- Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 81 KB
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Jan Sobocan and Leo Groarke with Ralph H. Johnson and Frederick S. Ellett, Jr. (Eds.). (2009). Critical Thinking Education and Assessment: Can Higher Order Thinking be Tested? London, ON: The Althouse Press. 355 pages. ISBN: 978-0-920354-66-7 (paper) Critical Thinking Education and Assessment: Can Higher Order Thinking Be Tested? is a provocative text. As Michael Scriven states in his opening line of the Foreword, "Critical thinking is one of that elite group of educational values that everyone agrees should be promoted, and also agrees that they are not adequately taught at the moment" (p. xiii). According to the editors, the "book examines topics at the intersection of what is becoming a widespread commitment to the idea that critical thinking should be the central goal of education and international debates about testing and educational accountability" (p. 4). The editors argue that if critical thinking becomes and/or remains a central goal of education, then the assessment and testing of critical thinking is especially significant. However, the authors put forth a number of challenges to teaching and assessing critical thinking including a lack of a universal definition of critical thinking, conflicting approaches to teaching critical thinking, different attempts and methodologies used to assess Critical thinking, the role, if any, of standardized or large scale assessment, and how educators might more accurately assess critical thinking skills and dispositions.
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