{"id":170,"date":"2011-11-01T09:54:46","date_gmt":"2011-11-01T09:54:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/topl.co.uk\/?page_id=170"},"modified":"2011-11-09T14:26:53","modified_gmt":"2011-11-09T14:26:53","slug":"thinking-ability","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/topl.co.uk\/?page_id=170","title":{"rendered":"Thinking Ability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Testing for Thinking Capability<\/strong><br \/>\nThere are good, well proven tests for thinking capability, which can be used effectively in assessment, recruitment and development.\u00a0 The best simulate \u2018real\u2019 situations by varying the emotive content.\u00a0 Items having neutral content deal with the weather, scientific facts or experiments, and other subject matter about which people generally do not have strong feelings or prejudices.\u00a0 Items having \u201ccontroversial\u201d content, although approximately parallel in logical structure to neutral items, refer to political, economic, and social issues that frequently provoke very strong feelings.\u00a0 As has often been shown, strong attitudes, opinions, and biases affect the ability of some people think critically.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Aspects of Thinking Capability which can be objectively measured and tested <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Inference.<\/strong>\u00a0 Discriminating among degrees of truth or falsity of inference is drawn from given data.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Recognition of Assumptions.<\/strong>\u00a0 Recognising unstated assumptions or presuppositions in given statements or assertions.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Deduction.<\/strong>\u00a0 Determining whether certain conclusions necessarily follow from information in given statements or premises.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Interpretation.<\/strong>\u00a0 Weighing evidence and deciding if generalisations or conclusions based on the given data are warranted.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Evaluation of arguments.<\/strong>\u00a0 Distinguishing between arguments that are strong and relevant and those that a weak or irrelevant to particular question at issue.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Pattern Recognition.<\/strong>\u00a0 Spotting patterns connections, similarities and differences (particularly those which are not obvious) in information from a variety of sources and domains.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Testing for Thinking Capability There are good, well proven tests for thinking capability, which can be used effectively in assessment, recruitment and development.\u00a0 The best simulate \u2018real\u2019 situations by varying the emotive content.\u00a0 Items having neutral content deal with the <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/topl.co.uk\/?page_id=170\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":42,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-170","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/topl.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/170"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/topl.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/topl.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/topl.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/topl.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=170"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/topl.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":222,"href":"http:\/\/topl.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/170\/revisions\/222"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/topl.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/42"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/topl.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}