Measuring Outcomes Of Students' Learning Involving the Learning Modalities, Domains, Critical Thinking Skills Levels, and Right-and Left-Brain Thinking

Measuring Outcomes Of Students' Learning Involving the Learning Modalities, Domains, Critical Thinking Skills Levels, and Right-and Left-Brain Thinking

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There is no paucity of literature that relates to the learning domains, the modalities, critical thinking skills, or right- and left-brain thinking. Charts for various aspects of the preceding aspects have taken the forms of pyramids, circles, and the more conventional square or rectangle as well as bubbles and diagrams. None, however, have attempted to chart sample evaluative vocabulary that links the critical thinking skill levels to both the learning domains and the learning modalities. Textual comments indicate links between the preceding and right- and left brain thinking. The extrapolation of the sample evaluative vocabulary provides a quick reference to provide effective and valid evaluation of student learning as follows:

1. Enhance the inclusion of test items related to right- and left-brain thinking;

2. Create a stronger link between test items and learning modalities;

3. Develop a stronger link between test items and the affective domain;

4. Improve the link between test items and the cognitive and psychomotor domains; and,

5. Forge a stronger link between test items in the preceding categories and the Johnson Critical Thinking Skills Levels.