We can't teach critical thinking until we know how to assess it, argues John Adsit. "A course that focuses instruction on thinking skills needs to focus assessment on thinking skills as well, and here teachers and course designers are often equally baffled," he writes. "Assessment is actually the key. If students are assessed by how they use thinking skills... then they will need to be taught how to do it in the first place." All very good, but to assess for critical thinking skills you have to know what they are in the first place. Skills that merely lean toward textual analysis, as in the examples given here, will be insufficient. A wider definition of critical thinking is necessary.
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