A Study on Critical Thinking Assessment System of College English Writing

Autor/inn/en	Dong, Tian; Yue, Lu
Titel	A Study on Critical Thinking Assessment System of College English Writing
Quelle	In: English Language Teaching, 8 (2015) 11, S.176-182 (7 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1916-4742
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Critical Thinking; Thinking Skills; College English; Writing (Composition); Writing Skills; Writing Evaluation; Scores; Correlation; Statistical Analysis; Writing Tests; Grades (Scholastic); Test Results; Personality Traits; Likert Scales; English (Second Language); China + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Kritisches Denken; Denkfähigkeit; Schreibübung; Writing skill; Schreibfertigkeit; Korrelation; Statistische Analyse; Writing test; Schreibtest; Notenspiegel; Individual characteristics; Personality characteristic; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Likert-Skala; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache
Abstract	This research attempts to discuss the validity of introducing the evaluation of students' critical thinking skills (CTS) into the assessment system of college English writing through an empirical study. In this paper, 30 College English Test Band 4 (CET-4) writing samples were collected and analyzed. Students' CTS and the final scores of collected writing samples were respectively regarded as two independent variables to make a correlation analysis through Pearson Correlation of SPSS17.0 software. In addition, Excel was also used as an instrument to analyze the research results. The findings suggest that the two variables are significantly and positively correlated with each other, that is, students' CTS greatly influence their English writing proficiency. Thus, it is quite necessary to cultivate students' CTS to improve their English writing competence. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01