California Critical Thinking Disposition Inventory (CCTDI)

General Information on the Measure
Purpose of the measure The California Critical Thinking Disposition Inventory (CCTDI) measures the dispositional aspect of critical thinking.
Main constructs measured Cognitive competencies
Applicable grade levels

Ages 15 to adult

Publication year for the most recent version No information available in the references reviewed.
Year originally developed 1992
Related measures
Measure Administration
Respondent Student
Method of administration

Paper/Pencil, Digital

Number of items 34
Item format

Selected response

Administration time

20-30 minutes

Available languages English, French, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, and 14 other languages
Fee for use Fee charged by developer
Credentials required for administration
  • Therapy, social work, counseling, and/or educational training specific to assessing children, or in infant and child development; and
  • Formal training in the ethical administration, scoring, and interpretation of clinical assessments.
Scoring
Overall score reporting Overall thinking ability scores are reported.
Subscore reporting

Seven disposition subscores are reported. These include disposition

  • toward truth seeking
  • toward open-mindedness or intolerance
  • toward anticipating possible consequences or being heedless of them
  • toward proceeding in a systematic or unsystematic way
  • toward being confident in the powers of reasoning or mistrustful of thinking
  • toward being inquisitive or resistant to learning, toward mature and nuanced judgment or toward rigid simplistic thinking.
Scoring procedures Scoring service is provided by the assessment developers.
Interpretive information Norm-referenced percentile ranks are available in the score reports, as are interpretations of the strength of the overall score and subscale scores. The test manual (available for purchase) includes additional information about score interpretation.
Evidence of Technical Quality
Populations for which technical quality evidence has been collected No information available in the references reviewed.
Reliability evidence No information available in the references reviewed.
Validity evidence
Evidence based on content.
No information available in the references reviewed.
Evidence based on response processes
No information available in the references reviewed.
Evidence based on internal structure.
No information available in the references reviewed.
Evidence based on relations with other variables.
No information available in the references reviewed.
Locating the Measure
Obtaining a copy of the measure insightassessment.com
References

Facione, P. A., Facione, N. C., & Giancarlo, C. A. F. , "California critical thinking disposition inventory: CCTDI," California Academic Press, 2001.

Notes

Measure summary updated October 3, 2018.