A MEASURE OF CRITICAL THINKING ABOUT PRACTICE

This article describes a measure that assesses ability to think critic ally about whether to adopt a treatment method. The measure is called PRIDE1 (Principles of Reasoning, Inference, Decision-Making and Evalua tion). PRIDE1 takes about 80 minutes to administer an emotional audiov isual argument and to obtain written responses. Scoring each response takes experienced raters from 2 to 10 minutes. Pearson's r interrater reliability on 5 trials range from .78 to .96. There was no statistica lly significant correlation between responses on PRIDE1 and research k nowledge, as measured on the Kirk-Rosenblatt Research Knowledge Scale. This study suggests that there may be little or no association betwee n research knowledge and ability to think critically about practice.