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Measuring Critical And Creative Thinking Ability, Ray Philpot
Measuring Critical And Creative Thinking Ability, Ray Philpot
Ray Philpot
Critical and Creative Thinking (CCT) is a core 21st Century competency. Is CCT ability a single, coherent construct that can be accurately measured, however? The Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA) conceives CCT as a general capability that consists of four interrelated elements: Inquiring, Analysing, Generating and Reflecting. A study was carried out that tested whether CCT as defined by ACARA is a single construct that can be applied across school levels from Year 1 to Year 10. Trial data consisted of responses from 4,954 students in 48 Victorian Primary and Secondary schools to (various subsets of) 312 assessment …
Writing High Quality Assessment Items, Ray Philpot
Writing High Quality Assessment Items, Ray Philpot
Ray Philpot
A seminar and workshops on how to develop instruments for a national assessment, with an emphasis on Mathematics.
Developing Large-Scale Assessments, Ray Philpot
Developing Large-Scale Assessments, Ray Philpot
Ray Philpot
A seminar on large-scale assessment given to a post-graduate class at Boston College, USA. In this seminar I discussed concepts in measurement theory, explained the principles for developing large-scale assessments and gave practical advice on how high quality tests can be constructed.