Assessment of Higher Order Thinking Skills (Hardcover, New)

A volume in Current Perspectives on Cognition, Learning, and Instruction Series Editors Gregory Schraw, University of Nevada, Las Vegas and Daniel H. Robinson, The University of Texas at Austin This volume examines the assessment of higher order thinking skills from the perspectives of applied cognitive psychology and measurement theory. The volume considers a variety of higher order thinking skills, including problem solving, critical thinking, argumentation, decision making, creativity, metacognition, and self-regulation Fourteen chapters by experts in learning and measurement comprise four sections which address conceptual approaches to understanding higher order thinking skills, cognitively oriented assessment models, thinking in the content domains, and practical assessment issues. The volume discusses models of thinking skills, as well as applied issues related to the construction, validation, administration and scoring of perfomancebased, selected-response, and constructed-response assessments. The goal of the volume is to promote a better theoretical understanding of higher order thinking in order to facilitate instruction and assessment of those skills among students in all K-12 content domains, as well as professional licensure and cetification settings.

General

Imprint:	Information Age Publishing
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	September 2011
First published:	September 2011
Editors:	Gregory Schraw • Daniel H. Robinson
Dimensions:	241 x 164 x 31mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	426
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-1-61735-506-6
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Education > Philosophy of education
LSN:	1-61735-506-2
Barcode:	9781617355066

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