TURKISH VALIDITY AND RELIABILITY OF WATSON-GLASER CRITICAL THINKING APPRAISAL TEST'S SHORT FORM

Problem: Critical thinking has been the focus of attention for both philosophers and psychology experts since ancient times. Criticism is expressed etymologically in Greek as “critic” or “kritike”, and in Latin as “criticus”. Ennis, with his essay "Critical Thinking Concept" in Harvard Educational Review (1962), is the pioneer of contemporary critical thinking in the United States. In this article, Ennis tries to clarify the concept of critical thinking and proposes a taxonomy that includes twelve critical thinking structures. Critical thinking is addressed in the field of education when Dewey started to use the concept of reflective thinking. According to Dewey (1909), reflective thinking is an active, permanent and careful evaluation of any belief or knowledge in the light of the ground that supports it. According to the Delphi Report prepared by experts in the field of critical thinking (Facione, 1990), critical thinking is the explanation of purposeful, conceptual, methodological, critical or contextual ideas on which the decision is based, self-regulated judgment, resulting in interpretation, analysis, evaluation and inference The main aim of this study is to develop the Turkish version of the critical thinking scale which is an important concept in the evaluation of individual differences. Method: Psychological test development and adaptation steps will be followed. Instruments: Watson-Glaser Critical Thinking Appraisal Form S (Short Form) consists of 16 scenarios, 40 items, and 5 sub-tests. The sub-tests are Making Inferences, Recognition of Assumptions, Deduction, Interpretation, Evaluation of Arguments. Parallel forms of the test are available. Data analysis: In data analysis, factor analysis will be carried out according to the structural equation model after obtaining an available Turkish scale form for linguistic equivalence study.