A Serious Flaw in the Collegiate Learning Assessment [CLA] Test

Informal Logic 33 (3):390-405 (2013)
  Copy   BIBTEX

Abstract

The Collegiate Learning Assessment Test has become popular and highly recommended, praised for its reliability and validity. I argue that while the CLA may be a commendable test for measuring critical-thinking, problem-solving, and logical-reasoning skills, those who are scoring students’ answers to the test’s questions are rendering the CLA invalid.

Categories

Keywords

Reprint years

DOI

10.22329/il.v33i3.3774

Links

PhilArchive



    Upload a copy of this work     Papers currently archived: 93,296

External links

Setup an account with your affiliations in order to access resources via your University's proxy server

Through your library

My notes

Similar books and articles

CAT Scan: A Critical Review of the Critical-Thinking Assessment Test.Kevin Possin - 2020 - Informal Logic 40 (3):489-508.
Critique of the Watson-Glaser Critical Thinking Appraisal Test: The More You Know, the Lower Your Score.Kevin Possin - 2014 - Informal Logic 34 (4):393-416.
Some Problems with the Halpern Critical Thinking Assessment (HCTA) Test.Kevin Possin - 2013 - Inquiry: Critical Thinking Across the Disciplines 28 (3):4-12.
Tacts™.Frank Fair, John Miller, Valerie Muehsam & Wendy Elliott - 2010 - Inquiry: Critical Thinking Across the Disciplines 25 (2):37-41.
Tacts™.Frank Fair, John Miller, Valerie Muehsam & Wendy Elliott - 2010 - Inquiry: Critical Thinking Across the Disciplines 25 (2):37-41.
Think You Can Think?: Cracking the Thinking Skills Assessment.Minesh Tanna - 2011 - London, England: Oxbridge Applications.
The Effectiveness of Fermi Problem solving with Flipped Learning Techniques in Teaching physics on Improving Critical Thinking Skills among Emirati Secondary Students.Adwan Mohammad Hasan Bani-Hamad & Rania Saber Mohammad Alzubaidi - 2021 - RIGEO 11 (8):2730-2743.
Using Factor Analysis to Test a Measure of Student Metacognitive Ability Related to Critical Thinking and Intellectual Humility.Jeff Roberts, David E. Wright & Glenn M. Sanford - 2017 - Intersection of Assessment and Learning 2017 (Fall):31-37.
Validity and Reliability Testing of the International Critical Thinking Essay Test form A (ICTET-A).Helena Hollis, Marina Rachitskiy, Leslie van der Leer & Linda Elder - 2024 - Inquiry: Critical Thinking Across the Disciplines 33 (1):94-116.
The preliminary validity and reliability of the Assessment of Barriers to Learning in Education – Autism.Melanie Howell, Tom Bailey, Jill Bradshaw & Peter E. Langdon - unknown

Analytics

Added to PP
2013-09-13

Downloads
30 (#550,897)

6 months
87 (#60,438)

Historical graph of downloads
How can I increase my downloads?

Citations of this work

Add more citations

References found in this work

On bullshit.Harry G. Frankfurt - 1986 - Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
On Bullshit.Harry Frankfurt - 1986 - Philosophical Quarterly 56 (223):300-301.
A Field Guide to Critical-Thinking Assessment.Kevin Possin - 2008 - Teaching Philosophy 31 (3):201-228.

Add more references