1. LOGO Sirinthorn.si@spu.ac.th Assessment Techniques for Critical Thinking Skills in Higher Education Sirinthorn Sinjindawong, Ph.D. Sripatum University

2. Outline  introduction of critical thinking  method for assessment  techniques for assessing critical thinking  conclusion www.themegallery.com

3. Critical Thinking  There are two essential dimensions of thinking that learners need to master in order to learn how to upgrade their thinking. They need to be able to identify the "parts" of their thinking, and they need to be able to assess their use of these parts of thinking www.themegallery.com

4. Critical thinking skills  Critical thinking skills were important for learners in higher education  Critical thinking used basic skills and higher skills  Critical thinking was a key basic of the potential brain in competency thinking as doing, and problem solving

5. Critical thinking skills  The assessment technique could evaluate thinking skills both generally and specifically in the contexts of disciplines

6. Critical thinking competence appropriate  1) identify issues of belief, empirical truth, and logic  2) evaluate credibility of sources of information and opinion  3) identify necessary or probable assumptions and presuppositions  4) recognize the difference between normative and non-normative claims for university

7. Traditional Methods of Assessment Pros? Cons? Paper and Pencil Teacher-made test Class discussion Etc.

8. Critical Thinking Bloom’s Taxonomy Levels Enhancing Critical Thinking

9. NEW METHODS FOR ASSESSING CRITICAL THINKING www.themegallery.com

10. techniques for assessing critical thinking skills. Defining Features Matrix 2 Pro and Con Grid 3 Categorizing Grid 1

11.  Learners’ ability to sort what the were learning into categories  Technique could help learners set criteria for classification things into two or three or many types www.themegallery.com Categorizing Grid

12. Situation Array Structure Contents of data structure 1. Keeping track of rainfall data for a year 2. Creating a record for a person in your e-mail address book 3. Sorting high temperatures for the previous month 4. Finding the median score of your last 20 bowling scores 5. Keeping track of the current state of a crossword puzzle 6. Keeping track of a day's weather -- rainfall, high temperature, low temperature, average pressure, percent humidity

13. Categorizing Grid Situation Array Structure Contents of data structure 7. Storing a customer profile with their account number, current balance, expiration date of charge account 8. Keeping track of 2 players' positions on a 2-dimensional grid http://www.online.cs.washington.edu/cse142/assessments/lecture18-categorizing-grid.html

14. Categorizing Grid www.themegallery.com Nuntika Nakchaya,2003

15. Defining Features Matrix  learners’ skills in categorizing important information.  learners could determine into two or three similar concepts in difference feature www.themegallery.com

16. Categorize concepts according to the presence (+) or absence (-) of important defining features. Suggestions: Best used in courses that require learners to distinguish between closely related items/concepts Use a Matrix format (easy to administer, score, and evaluate) Activity Time Commitment Faculty to prepare to use this CAT MEDIUM Students to respond to the assessment LOW Faculty to analyze the data collected LOW Defining Features Matrix

17. Features Institutional Assessment Classroom Assessment Teacher-designed and directed - + Large sample sizes required +- Sophisticated statistical data analysis required+- Standardized and validated instruments preferred +- Focused on classroom teaching and learning -+ Replicable and comparable +- Useful to students and teachers -+ Useful to administrators + - Aims to improve quality of higher education ++ http://sites.google.com/site/catssmcc/weekly-cat/definingfeaturesmatrix

18. Pro and Con Grid  learners analyzed two sides of an issue.  learners would be able to separate strength and weakness for each issue into words, phases, or sentences.

19. www.themegallery.com Pro and Con Grid Con Pro The irradiation of Produce for the mass marketplace. In your viewpoint the food that you and your family eats to be irradiated?

20. The useful of assessable thinking  to support the teaching and learning in classroom  to help learners to fulfill their knowledge and skills for learning and searching a new knowledge  to improve critical thinking and higher order thinking www.themegallery.com

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