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Learning and Thinking
The Deep Thinking Inclination Scale
Measures how much the student wants effortful thinking: do they enjoy a hard question or avoid it?
20 items
6 minutes
4 dimensions
Intermediate and above
What it measures
Distinguishes the student who "cannot" from the student who "does not want to". The first needs a skill, the second needs a question worth their thinking — and the remedies are completely different.
How to read the result
Array
Before administering
Confirm that an honest answer is more use to the student than the "right" answer, and that a great many people do not enjoy effortful thinking, and that this is normal.
Its limits
Sensitive to the socially desirable answer — the student knows that "I like thinking" is the praised answer. Read it with their behavior in discussions, not on its own.
Its dimensions
- Enjoying ThinkingWhen high: Enjoys complex thinking and seeks it out.
- Mental EffortWhen high: Puts in mental effort and reviews their work.
- Asking for EvidenceWhen high: Asks for the evidence and checks the source.
- Openness to DisagreementWhen high: Listens to the one who disagrees and changes their mind in the face of evidence.
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