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Critical thinking is the intellectual skill set that ensures
you can process and consider information, challenge
and analyse data, and then reach a conclusion that
can be defended and justified.
In the most simple terms, critical reasoning skills
will make sure that you are not simply accepting
information at face value with little or no supporting
evidence.
It also means that you are less likely to be swayed
by ‘false news’ or opinions that cannot be backed
with facts – which is important in high-level jobs
that require logical thinking.
Guidelines for Critical
Thinking Testing
According to the New System Of
Education
Reluctant to do regular tests, Why?
1. Teachers consider testing too time-consuming,
taking away class time.
2. They identify testing with mathematics and
statistics.
3. They may think testing goes against humanistic
approaches to teaching.
4. They have gotten little guidance in constructing
tests in either pre-service or in-service training.
5. Teachers feel that the time and effort they put into
writing and correcting tests is not acknowledged
with additional pay or personal praise.
6. There is the personal implication that I would call
“the image inthe mirror”: Testing puts you face-to-
face with your own effectiveness as a teacher.
In this sense,testing can be as frightening and
frustrating to the teacher as it is for the students.
A critical thinking test assesses your ability to use a
range of logical skills to evaluate given information and
make a judgement. The test is presented in such a way
that candidates are expected to quickly scrutinise the
evidence presented and decide on the strength of the
arguments.
Critical thinking tests show potential employers that
you do not just accept data and can avoid subconscious
bias and opinions – instead, you can find logical
connections between ideas and find alternative
interpretations.
This test is usually timed, so quick, clear, logical thinking
will help candidates get the best marks. Critical thinking
tests are designed to be challenging, and often used as
part of the application process for upper-management-
level roles.
Why Must Teachers Test?
1. Testing tells teachers what students can or cannot
do—in other words, tests show teachers how
successful their teaching has been. It provides
wash back for them to adjust or change course
content and teaching styles if necessary.
2. Testing tells students how well they are
progressing. This may stimulate them to take
learning more seriously.
3. By identifying students’ strengths and
weaknesses, testing can help identify areas for
remedial work.
4. Testing will help evaluate the effectiveness of the
program, coursebooks, materials, and methods.
The test itself, no matter the publisher, is multiple
choice.As a rule, the questions present a paragraph of
information for a scenario that may include numerical
data. There will then be a statement and a number of
possible answers.
The critical thinking test is timed, so decisions need to
be made quickly and accurately; in most tests there
is a little less than a minute for each question. Having
experience of the test structure and what each question
is looking for will make the experience smoother for you.
There are typically five separate sections
in a critical thinking test, and each section
may have multiple questions.
Inference questions assess your ability to judge whether
a statement is true, false, or impossible to determine
based on the given data and scenario. You usually have
five possible answers: absolutely true, absolutely false,
possibly true, possibly false, or not possible to determine.
In this section, you are being assessed on your ability
to avoid taking things for granted. Each question gives
a scenario including data, and you need to evaluate
whether there are any assumptions present.
Here you are given a scenario and a number of
deductions that may be applicable. You need to assess
the given deductions to see which is the logical
conclusion– does it follow?
In the interpretation stage, you need to read and analyze
a paragraph of information, then interpret a set of possible
conclusions, to see which one is correct. You are looking
for the conclusion that follows beyond reasonable doubt.
In this section, you are given a scenario and a set of
arguments that can be for or against. You need to
determine which are strong arguments and which are
weak, in terms of the information that you have. This
decision is made based on the way they address the
scenario and how relevant they are to the content.
Planning Stage
A-Specifications.
Even if the specifications were done by the
textbook writer, the teacher will have to select
what s/he considers most important, and not
what is easiest to test, in order to draw up a
set of specifications which reflects the emphasis
of the teaching
B-Sampling.
Tests should cover the language, grammar,
vocabulary, phonology, functions, and skill areas.
Therefore, they have to cover both the content
input and the activities or tasks. A test of
communicative competence should test usage
as well as the ability to use the language
appropriately.
Development Stage
1. Compile written and spoken source materials
to fit contents of the program.
2. Select activities that best measure performance.
3. Select test format—multiple choice, true/false,
gap filling, etc.—taking into account channels,
written or spoken, and strategy use.
4. Avoid items that are ambiguous, tricky, or
overlapping.
The difficulty should lie in the text and not in the
question.
5. Include clear and unambiguous instructions, with
brief and well-chosen wording and some examples.
6. Design a clear layout which will not induce
mistakes. Make the test attractive, and similar
to the layout of the textbook.We recommend
variety, such as the use of pictures, different
typefaces, and any element which can reduce
anxiety.
7. Thoughtfully consider the scoring and marking
systems. Testing is a teamwork activity not a
solitary one.
The marking system should be checked by at least
another teacher. The marking criteria should be set
before hand and candidates must be informed as
how they will be scored.
8. Analyze the test statistically.
9. Consider the pedagogical effects that the test
may have on teaching.If we want our test to
influence teaching and learning, we should ask
our students and ourselves the following
questions:
Points to consider to do effective test:
• What do students think about the fairness of the
test?
• What poor results are due to poor stem
construction?
How could the items be improved?
• What poor results are due to poor or insufficient
teaching?
• What poor results are due to the coursebook or
other materials?
• What areas of weakness in student performance
have we detected for remedial work?
• Can we make assumptions on the relation
between teaching and learning?
• What changes should be done in our class as a
result of the test feedback?
10. Present the test and feedback results to the
students with the aim of reviewing and revising the
teaching of content or skills in which the test has
shown students to be weak.
The best way to prepare for any type of aptitude test is
to practice, and critical thinking tests are no different.
Taking practice tests, as mentioned above, will give
you confidence as it makes you better understand
the structure, layout and timing of the real tests,
so you can concentrate on the actual scenarios
and questions.
Practice tests should be timed. This will help you get
used to working through the scenarios and assessing
the conclusions under time constraints – which is a
good way to make sure that you perform quickly as
well as accurately.
In some thinking skills assessments, a timer will be built in,
but you might need to time yourself.
Regular practice will also help you to identify if there
are any sections of the critical thinking test that you
need to work on. Most tests will provide an explanation
to each answer, as in the examples above.
1-Topics 2.
2-Merging environmental education
3-Using original video and sound effects
5-What is "Linguistics"?
6-British and Australian slang
7-Critical Thinking Test.
4- Education with a good quality
5-A Learning and Teaching Environment
7-Cultural Awareness.
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