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Torff, Bruce; Warburton, Edward C. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2005
This article reports five studies in which a scale for assessing teachers' beliefs about classroom use of critical-thinking (CT) activities was developed and its scores evaluated for reliability and validity. The Critical Thinking Belief Appraisal (CTBA) is based on a four-factor "advantage effect" model: the theoretical premise that teachers'…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Predictive Validity, Factor Structure, Teacher Attitudes