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标题：Testing for the Disposition to Think Critically
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作者：Stephen P. Norris
期刊名称：Informal Logic
印刷版ISSN：0824-2577
出版年度：1992
卷号：14
期号：2
出版社：Informal Logic
摘要：In order to tesl for critical thinking dispositions, the presence of the requisite critical thinking abilities must first be established. Otherwise, it is always a plausible counterexplanation of failure to use certain abilities that they were not possessed. If a person spontaneously uses some ability on a task, then it is often legitimate to conclude that the person has both the ability and the disposition to use it. However, if the person does not use the ability spontaneously, the conclusion is ambiguous. The person might not have the ability, or might have the ability but not the disposition to use it, or not the disposition to use it in the specific circumstances of the presented task. This paper proposes methods of critical thinking testing designed to deal with each of these possibilities.
关键词：critical thinking testing, critical thinking dispositions, test validity, dispositions