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  • Educational Assessment
  • Critical Thinking Skills
  • Cognitive Psychology

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  • The International Performance Assessments of Learning (iPAL) project developed a framework for performance assessments focusing on critical thinking.
  • The iPAL framework emphasizes assessing information, arguments, consequences, and communication in problem-solving tasks.
  • Existing frameworks overlook the systemic nature of perspectives and worldviews in problem situations.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To elaborate on the iPAL framework by enhancing its critical thinking construct.
  • To incorporate a new facet of perspective analysis into critical thinking assessments.
  • To outline design considerations for performance assessments that evaluate perspective analysis skills.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized Werner Ulrich's Critical Systems Heuristics for systemic perspective analysis.
  • Argued for the integration of perspective analysis into critical thinking constructs.
  • Discussed design considerations for performance assessments, focusing on problem situations and test-taker expectations.

Main Results:

  • Proposed an enhanced critical thinking construct that includes perspective analysis.
  • Identified key design considerations for creating performance assessments that test perspective analysis.
  • Illustrated the construction of such assessments with a practical example.

Conclusions:

  • Integrating perspective analysis significantly enhances critical thinking assessment frameworks.
  • Performance assessments can be designed to effectively evaluate critical thinking, including perspective analysis.
  • The proposed framework offers a more comprehensive approach to assessing critical thinking in authentic problem-solving contexts.