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Curricular Design / Teaching Strategies

Assessment

Teachers' Seminar: Better Practices for Assessing Critical Thinking

Saturday, July 20, 2024
12:45 PM – 1:30 PM East Coast USA Time
Location: Sheraton: Independence West
CE: 0.75

Learning Objectives:

At the completion of this activity, participants will be able to:
  • Explain challenges and opportunities related to the assessment of critical thinking.
  • Describe methods for effective critical thinking assessment across learning environments (e.g., didactic, skills, and experiential coursework).
  • Identify at least one appropriate strategy for critical thinking assessment that can be implemented in an existing course or learning activity
Assessing critical thinking poses specific challenges, as it involves the evaluation of a process rather than an outcome. Consequently, it is often not effectively measured through traditional assessments. In this session, participants will review several established and emerging practices for assessing effective critical thinking gathered from across health professions education. Some of these methods include the health sciences reasoning test and structured professional reasoning exercises. We will focus on application across learning settings and modalities.