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2025 APS Annual Convention · 2025

Critical Thinking: Change in Concept and Measurement over the Last 100 Years

Washington, DC · May 2025

Flash Talk · Methodology

  • Kai Cortina
    University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  • Blake Ebright
    University of Michigan

Abstract

Since John Dewey's "invention" of the term in 1910, critical thinking has evolved from a concept derived from formal logic to a key psychological skill touted as a "21st century skill". The definition shifted from epistemological reasoning to a focus of information evaluation with strong implication for measurement.

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