Open AccessSELF‐ASSESSMENT OF REASONING SKILLS
Author(s) -
Powers Donald E.
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
ets research report series
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.235
H-Index - 5
ISSN - 2330-8516
DOI - 10.1002/j.2333-8504.2002.tb01889.x
Subject(s) - psychology , test (biology) , cognitive skill , self assessment , cognition , item response theory , sample (material) , psychometrics , cognitive test , mathematics education , applied psychology , social psychology , developmental psychology , paleontology , chemistry , chromatography , neuroscience , biology
The general aim of the study was to investigate the feasibility and accuracy of self‐assessing thinking/reasoning skills and to provide information about the psychometric properties of one instrument designed to self‐assess these skills. This objective was accomplished by examining the relationship of the self‐assessment to cognitive measures of reasoning skills. A sample of Graduate Record Examinations ® (GRE ® ) General Test takers ( n = 342) completed a battery of reasoning tests along with a 20‐item self‐assessment of thinking skills, which had been developed empirically on the basis of a survey of graduate faculty. The results revealed only weak relations ( r s in the .20s) between the self‐assessment and cognitive test scores. Possible reasons are proposed for the lack of any strong relation.