title: Standardized measures of critical thinking. Experience with the California Critical Thinking Tests.
abstract: Standardized measures of student critical thinking are an attractive option for nursing educators under pressure to demonstrate student higher order thinking skills. One program's experience using the California Critical Thinking Skills Test and the California Critical Thinking Dispositions Inventory illustrates some of the problems of using standardized test and potential solutions.
authors.affiliation: Nursing Program, University of Washington-Bothell, USA. leppa@u.washington.edu
authors.forename: C J
authors.initials: CJ
authors.lastname: Leppa
mesh_terms: D002140:California; D002983:Clinical Competence / Q000592:standards*; D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D012015:Reference Standards; D013850:Thinking