Instructor Resource Center (IRC) Collection. Cover title. "Use in conjunction with: The thinker's guide to analytic thinking [and] The thinker's guide to critical thinking competency standards."

Introduction: Reading, writing and the educated mind -- Relationship between reading and writing -- Purpose of the test -- Intellectual skills essential to close reading -- Intellectual skills essential to substantive writing -- Five levels of close reading and substantive writing -- Test format -- Specimen answers -- Creating your own prompts -- Grading Rubrics -- Choose holistic or individual answer scoring -- Scoring the examination to achieve reliability -- Consequential validity -- Using the test in pre- or post-instruction (or both) -- Test forms: Form AA: Paraphrasing substantive quotes -- Declaration of independence: Form A : Paraphrasing a text sentence by sentence -- Form B: Explicating the thesis of a text -- Form C: Explicating the logic of a text -- Form D: Evaluating the logic of a text -- Form E: Role-playing the author -- On civil disobedience: Form A : Paraphrasing a text sentence by sentence -- Form B: Explicating the thesis of a text -- Form C: Explicating the logic of a text -- Form D: Evaluating the logic of a text -- Form E: Role-playing the author -- Art of loving: Form A : Paraphrasing a text sentence by sentence -- Form B: Explicating the thesis of a text -- Form C: Explicating the logic of a text -- Form D: Evaluating the logic of a text -- Form E: Role-playing the author -- Form CC: Explicating the logic of a subject or discipline -- Specimen answers: Form AA: Paraphrasing substantive quotes -- Declaration of independence: Form A: Paraphrasing a text sentence by sentence -- Form B: Explicating the thesis of a text -- Form C: Explicating the logic of a text -- Form D: Evaluating the logic of a text -- On civil disobedience: Form A : Paraphrasing a text sentence by sentence -- Form B: Explicating the thesis of a text -- Form C: Explicating the logic of a text -- Form D: Evaluating the logic of a text -- Art of loving: Form A : Paraphrasing a text sentence by sentence -- Form B: Explicating the thesis of a text -- Form C: Explicating the logic of a text -- Form D: Evaluating the logic of a text -- Form CC: Explicating the logic of a subject or discipline as detailed in a textbook: Logic of ecology -- Logic of economics -- Appendix: A: Analyzing the logic of an excerpt, article, essay, or chapter.