Ennis-Weir Critical Thinking Test

Ennis-Weir Critical Thinking Test

Critical Thinking Press and Software (formerly Midwest Publications). Publication discontinued by original publisher. However, together with the “Supplementary Test/Manual” (November, 2005; includes user norms, validity and reliability data), this test is available for downloading at no cost. Aimed at grades 7 through college. Intended to be used for both formative and summative evaluation, but also as a teaching material, and. Incorporates getting the point, seeing the reasons and assumptions, stating one’s point, offering good reasons, seeing other possibilities (including other possible explanations), and responding to and avoiding equivocation, irrelevance, circularity, reversal of an if-then (or other conditional) relationship, overgeneralization, credibility problems, and the use of emotive language to persuade. The last three pages, which constitute the actual test, may be photocopied in quantity.