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STRATEGIES for ASSESSING
Higher-ORDErThinking
Create multiple-choice questions using one of the questions from the strategies on the right.
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Adapt one of the general questions to your content. 3Provide three or four choices that are plausible and of a similar nature, and one that is clearly the best answer.
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Provide materials that suit your content: 2
Cartoon Characters • Political Cartoon • Work of Art
Experiment and Results •
Experimental Design • Graph, Data Table, or Chart
Text(s) • Policy • Website
Concepts • Principles • Problem •
Theory
Events • Scenarios
Advertisement • Editorial or Other Persuasive Communication • Speech
Learn more about the Designing Assessments for Higher-Order Thinking PD Online® course at
WWW.ASCD.ORG/HIGHER-ORDER-ASSESSMENTS
SOURCE | Adapted from How to Assess Higher-Order Thinking Skills in Your Classroom (pp 144-147), by Susan M. Brookhart, Alexandria, VA: ASCD. © 2010 by ASCD.
© ASCD 2015. All rights reserved.
To identify or evaluate rhetorical and persuasive strategies, ask: » What is the author trying to persuade readers [viewers] to do [think]?
» How persuasive would [some aspect] be with [some audience]?
» What imagery [or other strategy] is intended to persuade the audience [to do or think something]?
To analyze arguments, ask: » What evidence does the author gives that…?
» What is the most critical piece of evidence that…?
» On what assumptions does this argument rest?
To evaluate materials and methods for their intended purposes, ask: » What is the author trying to accomplish?
» What elements in the work [accomplish some purpose]?
» How well does the author [accomplish some purpose]?
To identify issues or problems, ask: » What is the main issue?
» What is the problem?
To compare and contrast, ask: » Which elements in [text] are like [or not like]?
» Ask for a generalization based on similarities or differences.
To evaluate the credibility of a source, ask: » Is the information is believable?
» Why is the information believable [or not]?
To reason with data: » Solve the problem.
» Identify the key information for solving the problem.
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