Assessing students' critical thinking performance: Urging for measurements using multi-response format

Thinking Skills and Creativity

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 70-76

  Ku, Kelly Y L ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Assessment; Critical thinking; Higher education; Response format; Thinking skills

Indexed keywords

EID: 62049085733     PISSN: 18711871     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tsc.2009.02.001     Document Type: Article

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