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You can download the multiple-choice CTSR (password-protected) at either of these locations:
http://modelinginstruction.org/researchers/evaluation-instruments/
http://modeling.asu.edu/modeling/weblinks.html in the section on assessments.
Ask jane.jackson@asu.edu for the password to open it.
You can record scores, analyze them, and correlate them with the FCI, by downloading a zipped
spreadsheet called assessssv5b.zip at http://modelinginstruction.org, under the ‘research’ tab.
Prof. James Vesenka developed it.
Graded out of 13, the CTSR maps to Piagetian categories: 0-4, concrete reasoners; 5-7 early
transitional; 8-10 late transitional; 11-13, formal.
You can see graphs of national norms at each grade (7 to 12) for the CTSR at
https://sites.google.com/site/wsuinquiryinstruction/home/thinking-skills-national-norms
or in Jacqueline O’Donnell’s Master’s degree thesis, which you can download at
http://modeling.asu.edu/modeling/weblinks.html in the section on assessments.
Jacqueline O’Donnell’s 33-page thesis, Creation of National Norms for Scientific Thinking Skills
…, is a study of CTSR data on ~5500 students. She found that more than 50% of students in
grades seven through nine are concrete thinkers and more than 85% of students graduating from
high school are not formal thinkers. You can use these data to track thinking skills development of
individual students, classes, and grade levels. The data can help you determine interventions (e.g.,
CASE) to improve students’ abilities.
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* Scientific Literacy: Resurrecting the Phoenix with Thinking Skills, by John C. Deming,
Jacqueline R. O’Donnell and Christopher J. Malone. Science Educator, Winter 2012 Vol. 21, no.
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For the above two articles and more resources, email Nathan Moore <nmoore@winona.edu>. See
also Dr. Moore’s article: http://course1.winona.edu/nmoore/reasoning_ability_CASE.pdf
* Lawson, A.E. (2001). Promoting Creative and Critical Thinking Skills in College Biology.
Bioscene 27(1) March. Pages 13-24. Figure 2 is a graph of pre-test & posttest Classroom Test of
Scientific Reasoning (CTSR) scores of 514 college students (non-science majors in Anton
Lawson’s course). The multiple-choice version was used, and the maximum score is 13. The gains
were HUGE, although no quantities are cited. From Figure 2, we calculated the pretest mean to
be ~6.8 and posttest to be ~9.7. The most frequent CTSR score improved from 7 to 11. Table 2
is a list of theories (we would call most of them models) and central questions raised in the
course.
<http://www.public.asu.edu/~anton1/AssessArticles/Articles/Scientific Reasoning/Promoting
creative and critical thinking in college biology.pdf>
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See chapter 2: Patterns of Thinking by Scientists and by Adolescents.
See pages 444 & 445: scoring the CTSR (the 1995 free-response version).
b) Download Curriculum Analysis Taxonomies (CAT), by Shayer & Adey, at the ASU Modeling
Instruction website, on the "Weblinks for Modelers" webpage, in the section: "Research Results
for K-14 teachers" (7 pages, 15 thinking skills, Piagetian).
http://modeling.asu.edu/modeling/weblinks.html