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Assessing critical thinking in community colleges
Author(s) -
Bers Trudy
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
new directions for community colleges
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1536-0733
pISSN - 0194-3081
DOI - 10.1002/cc.192
Subject(s) - critical thinking , community college , mathematics education , standardized test , pedagogy , engineering ethics , sociology , psychology , management science , medical education , engineering , medicine
This chapter presents an overview of approaches to assessing critical thinking in community colleges, a brief description of standardized tests, and examples of several institutionally developed methodologies and good practices. Finally, it identifies challenges in assessing critical thinking in two‐year colleges.