The Halpern Critical Thinking Assessment and real-world outcomes: Cross-national applications
By Heather Butler, Christopher P. Dwyer, Michael J. Hogan, Amanda R. Franco, Silvia F. Rivas, C. Saiz, Leandro Da Silva Almeida. 2012
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a b s t r a c t The Halpern Critical Thinking Assessment (HCTA) is a reliable measure of critical thinking that has been validated with numerous qualitatively different samples and measures of academic success (Halpern, 2010a). This paper presents several cross-national applications of the assessment, and recent work to expand the validation of the HCTA with real-world outcomes of critical thinking (e.g., contracting a sexual transmitted infection because you did not wear a condom). The real-world outcomes (RWO) inventory measures behavior in a wide range of domains, such as education, health, finance, and interpersonal relationships. Study 1 examined whether scores on the HCTA predicted real-world outcomes in three qualitatively different samples in the United States. Study 2 used the HCTA to assess the effectiveness of an online critical thinking course, and whether the HCTA predicted real- world outcomes in Ireland. Study 3 describes preliminary research involving the translation quality of the RWO (into Spanish and Portuguese) and explored differences in behaviors in the two countries. Overall, the HCTA is a useful tool for assessing critical thinking and pre- dicts real-world outcomes of critical thinking. Cross-national implications and applications are discussed.
Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Education
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- An integrated critical thinking framework for the 21st century (2014, background): “Instruction in critical thinking is becoming exceedingly important because it allows individuals to gain a more complex understanding of information they encounter and promotes good decision-making and problem-solving in real-world applications (Butler et al., 2012; Halpern, 2003; Ku, 2009).”
- Creative and critical thinking: Independent or overlapping components? (2018, background): “These abilities have been associated to academic performance as well as success in students’ personal and social lives (Butler et al., 2012; Phan, 2010; Runco et al., 2010; Wechsler, 2006).”