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Assessment of thinking levels in students' answers.

Academic Exchange Quarterly

| December 22, 2001 | Pear, Joseph J.; Crone-Todd, Darlene E.; Wirth, Kirsten M.; Simister, Heather D. | COPYRIGHT 2001 Rapid Intellect Group, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Authors' Note: This research was supported in part by a grant to J.J. Pear from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. D.E. Crone-Todd was supported by a fellowship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. The authors gratefully acknowledge Ms. Sabrina Berry's assistance with this research project.

Abstract

Having first developed a method, based on Bloom's taxonomy (1956), for assessing the thinking levels required by study questions in computer-mediated courses (Crone-Todd, Pear & Read, 2000), we developed a method for assessing the levels at which students answer the questions. Reliability measures ...

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