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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 …
Automatic Scoring Of Items In Pisa 2012 Problem Solving, Ray Philpot
Automatic Scoring Of Items In Pisa 2012 Problem Solving, Ray Philpot
Ray Philpot
The OECD PISA 2012 Problem Solving assessment was delivered on-line and exploited the capabilities of the computer by including many problems where students were required to interact with a virtual scenario. The actions taken by students – clicking buttons, dragging objects etc – were recorded in log files during testing. For many items these logs were used to automatically score the item. In some cases the strategy exhibited by the students as they tackled a problem contributed to the scoring, in addition to whether they managed to solve the problem. In this paper I give an overview of the PISA …