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Evaluating Critical Thinking Skills: Two Conceptualizations

2005· article· en· W2993122078 on OpenAlexaffvenue
Cheryl L. McLean

Bibliographic record

VenueInternational journal of e-learning & distance education · 2005
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicEducation and Critical Thinking Development
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Manitoba
Fundersnot available
KeywordsHumanitiesCritical thinkingCategorizationSociologyPsychologyPhilosophyEpistemologyPedagogy
DOInot available

Abstract

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In this study two complementary models, which were based on the strengths of existing models, were developed to analyze students’ critical thinking skills. One model was used to categorize the types of critical thinking displayed by students; the other was used to evaluate the quality of the critical thinking. The models were refined and tested for usefulness through an analysis of students’ messages posted in two sequential two-week computer conferences. The study also examined the level of critical thinking displayed compared with that shown by other studies and highlighted critical thinking skills that were not frequently demonstrated by participants. Dans cette etude, deux modeles complementaires, bases sur les points forts de modeles existants, ont ete developpes pour analyser la capacite de pensee critique des etudiants. Un modele a ete utilise pour categoriser les types de pensee critique demontres par les etudiants, alors que l’autre a ete utilise pour evaluer la qualite de la pensee critique. Les modeles ont ete raffines et testes en fonction de leur utilite grâce a une analyse des messages des etudiants places dans deux forums numeriques sequentiels de deux semaines. L’etude a aussi examine le niveau de pensee critique demontre en comparaison avec celui indique dans d’autres etudes et a mis en lumiere des habiletes de la pensee critique peu frequentes chez les participants.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.025
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.077
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.025
Threshold uncertainty score0.130

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0250.077
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0030.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.003
Bibliometrics0.0200.007
Science and technology studies0.0020.016
Scholarly communication0.0150.019
Open science0.0030.008
Research integrity0.0040.005
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0030.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.038
GPT teacher head0.467
Teacher spread0.429 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2005
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