Index

American Philosophical Association’s 1990 “Delphi” report: pp. 26-27, 60-63
Authentic assessment: pp. 34-35, 164, 201-202, 310, 314
Background knowledge: pp. 161, 179-180, 184-191, 262-263
Best-explanation reasoning: pp.97-98
California Critical Thinking Disposition Inventory: pp.27-28
California Critical Thinking Skills Test: pp. 45-64, 217, 227-232
California Measure of Mental Motivation: pp. 31-34
Central reasoning assessment: pp. 197-211
Classroom assessment: pp.11, 279-287
Collegiate Learning Assessment: pp. 35-36
Concepts-in-use: pp. 198-199, 208
Cornell critical thinking test: pp. 93, 96, 99-101, 114
Cornell-Illinois conception: p. 101
Creative critical thinking: pp. 151-155, 157-161, 163-166
Creative thinking: pp. 71, 77, 128, 151, 153 – 155, 157-164, 219, 261, 304
Criteria for judgment: pp. 179-180, 183-184, 187, 190-191
Critical thinking: pp. 1-322
Critical thinking disposition: pp. 23-37, 238, 280-282
Critical thinking vocabulary: pp. 179-180, 183-184
Culture of High-Stakes Testing: pp. 23-37
Deductive Reconstruction: pp. 220-221
Dialectical skills: pp. 69, 85-86
Dialectical tier: pp. 69-87, 305
Diversity of conceptions of critical thinking: pp.70, 87
Enabling resources: pp. 177-179
Epistemic responsibility: pp. 301-316
Fundamental and powerful concepts: pp. 198-205, 208-210
Habits of mind:pp. 181-183, also see “Critical thinking disposition”
Inference-to-best explanation: pp. 93-94, 113
Intellectual resources: pp. 178-179
Inter-rater consistency: pp. 98, 106, 113, 164, 227
Internal consistency: pp. 98-99, 104-108, 113
Large-scale assessment: pp. 279-284
Learner-based assessment: p. 280
Literacy: pp.132, 151-156, 161-162
Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System: p. 35
Multi-dimensional: pp. 105-108
Operational conception of critical thinking: pp. 175, 178
Performance expectations: pp. 23-25
Powerful Questions: pp. 184-187, 190
Pragma-dialectics: pp. 237-253
Reflecting: p. 152
Reliability: pp. 33-34, 96-99, 104-108, 113-114
Reviewing: p. 152
Situational test validity: pp. 94-95
Test validation: pp. 93-94, 96
Test-retest consistency: pp. 98, 106-107, 113
The Ennis-Weir Critical Thinking Essay Test: pp. 84-87, 96, 217, 223-225
The Flew Challenge: pp. 80-81
The Ontario Secondary School Literacy Test: pp.151-166
Thinking strategies: pp. 180-181, 183, 192
Uni-dimensional: pp. 105-107, 114
Visualization: pp. 161-162
Watson Glaser test: p. 110