Assessment of higher order thinking skills

• Other Authors: Schraw, Gregory J. (Editor), Robinson, Daniel R. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, [2011]
• Series: Current perspectives on cognition, learning, and instruction.
• Subjects: Thought and thinking.; Cognitive learning.; Educational tests and measurements.; Education > Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects.; Cognition and cognitive psychology.; Philosophy and theory of education.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781806616015
• DOI: 10.1108/978-1-61735-507-3
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (vi, 418 pages) : illustrations

This volume examines the assessment of higher order thinking skills from the perspectives of applied cognitive psychology and measurement theory. The volume considers a variety of higher order thinking skills, including problem solving, critical thinking, argumentation, decision making, creativity,...

Table of Contents:

• Conceptualizing and assessing higher order thinking skills / Gregory Schraw and Daniel H. Robinson
• Part I. Conceptual approaches to understanding higher order thinking skills
• Chapter 1. An overview of thinking skills / Gregory Schraw, Matthew T. McCrudden, Stephen Lehman, and Bobby Hoffman
• Chapter 2. Higher order thinking and knowledge: Domain-general and domain-specific trends and future directions / Patricia A. Alexander, Daniel L. Dinsmore, Emily Fox, Emily M. Grossnickle, Sandra M. Loughlin, Liliana Maggioni, Meghan M. Parkinson, and Fielding I. Winters
• Chapter 3. Designing assessments of self-regulated learning / Philip H. Winne, Mingming Zhou, and Rylan Egan
• Part II. Cognitive assessment models
• Chapter 4. Test design with higher order cognition in mind / Joanna S. Gorin and Dubravka Svetina
• Chapter 5. A cognitive model for the assessment of higher order thinking in students / Jacqueline P. Leighton
• Part III. Higher order thinking in content domains
• Chapter 6. The assessment of higher order thinking in reading / Peter Afflerbach, Byeong-Young Cho, and Jong-Yun Kim
• Chapter 7. Assessing learning from inquiry science instruction / Stephanie B. Corliss and Marcia C. Linn
• Chapter 8. Assessment of higher order thinking: The case of historical thinking / Kadriye Ercikan and Peter Seixas
• Part IV. Practical issues in the assessment of higher order thinking skills
• Chapter 9. Issues in the design and scoring of performance assessments that assess complex thinking skills / Suzanne Lane
• Chapter 10. Incorporating cognitive demand in credentialing examinations / Susan L. Davis and Chad W. Buckendahl
• Chapter 11. Strategies for constructing assessments of higher order thinking skill / Susan M. Brookhart and Anthony J. Nitko
• Chapter 12. Critical thinking in the classroom: Teachers' beliefs and practices in instruction and assessment / Bruce Torff
• Chapter 13. Aligned by design: A process for systematic alignment of assessments to educational domains / William D. Schafer
• About the authors.