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Assessing higher education students’ critical thinking with the PENCRISAL test - Portuguese short version: a psychometric study
Autor(es)
Materia
Critical thinking
Reasoning
Decision making
Problem solving
Higher education
Assessment
Transversal competences
Clasificación UNESCO
61 Psicología
Fecha de publicación
2023
Resumen
[EN]The development of critical thinking in higher education is fundamental, preparing
students to think well, find explanations, make decisions and solve problems.
Given the importance of its promotion, its assessment is crucial, since the two
are inseparable. Moreover, the number of instruments that are validated to assess
critical thinking in the Portuguese language and culture are scarce. We present
the validation psychometric study of the PENCRISAL test (short version) to the
Portuguese language, a critical thinking assessment test for higher education
students, designed and validated in Spain (full and short version), which presents
adequate reliability and validity psychometric characteristics to assess key dimensions of critical thinking. A sample of 225 Portuguese higher education
students from three universities (two public and one private) performed a reduced
version of the PANCRISAL test. The results obtained allowed replicating the
Spanish reduced version in Portugal (only changing one of the six items), and
the confirmatory factorial analysis permits to identify two factors intercorrelated,
legitimizing the combination of the six items in a global score. This short version
can be used as a screening test, and its potential is pointed out to assess students
critical thinking to support teaching and research in higher education.
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10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1196794
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