TY - JOUR ID - 50291 TI - Assessing Critical Thinking Ability via the Writing Process: Developing and implementing a Rating Scale (Research Paper) JO - Iranian Journal of English for Academic Purposes JA - IJEAP LA - en SN - 2476-3187 AU - Sheikhy Behdani, Reihaneh AU - Rashtchi, Mojgan AD - English Department, Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch, Tehran, Iran AD - TEFL Department, IAU, North Tehran Branch Y1 - 2016 PY - 2016 VL - 5 IS - 2 SP - 123 EP - 142 KW - Critical Thinking Ability KW - Components of Thinking KW - Rating Scale KW - Writing Process DO - N2 - The present exploratory mixed methods study aimedto develop a scale for assessing critical thinking (CT) ability of Iranian EFL learners. The study wasconducted in three phases. In phase one, the features of CT components were examined in the writingsof 120 participants. A holistic and an analytic scale were developed based on their performance in exploiting the components of CT and the features of CT components.In the second phase, the language learners' new writing samples (N=110) were analyzed to examine to what extent they could employ the CT components.Also, the reliability and validity of the newly developed scale was calculated. Factor analysis revealed that the scale measured the four constructs of clarity, fairness-breadth, depth- significance-logicalness, and accuracy-precision-relevance.In the final phase, the researchers implemented the newly developed scale on a new group of learners (N=33)to observe the degree the scale couldassess the CT ability of language learners. UR - https://journalscmu.sinaweb.net/article_50291.html L1 - https://journalscmu.sinaweb.net/article_50291_bfaa643773200298d93205028aa3f6a3.pdf ER -