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August 8, 2007—Looking for support in revising your curriculum to reflect the needs of 21st-century learners? A new online resource could help: On Aug. 2, the Partnership for 21st Century Skills (P21), a national coalition of business and education leaders, issued a revised plan to help students and educators achieve 21st-century learning goals. -
1voteThe Partnership for the Assessment of Standards-Based Science (PASS) Science Assessment (PASS) testing program was developed with a grant from the National Science Foundation and is currently administered by WestEd. PASS uses a variety of measures for upper elementary, middle, and high school students to assess science content knowledge as well as higher order thinking and communication skills. Th
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1voteThe Cornell Critical Thinking Tests are published by Critical Thinking Press and Software. The tests date from 1985, having been developed by two Cornell University professors, Robert Ennis and Jason Millman. Level X is appropriate for assessing the critical thinking abilities of students in grades 4 through 14. It focuses on deduction, credibility, and identification of assumptions. It is a multiple-choice test. Earlier versions of the test focused on specific components of critical thinking.
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1votePrepared by Robert H. Ennis, University of Illinois. Revised July, 2006
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1votePublished by Robert H. Ennis in 1985, the test is intended for use in grades 7 through college to measure skills such as getting the point, seeing the reason and assumptions, offering reasons, and seeing other possibilities and explanations.
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