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Abstract:The Watson-Glaser Critical Thinking Appraisal Test is one of the oldest, most frequently used, multiple-choice criticalthinking tests on the market in business, government, and legal settings for purposes of hiring and promotion. I demonstrate, however, that the test has serious constructvalidity issues, stemming primarily from its ambiguous, unclear, misleading, and sometimes mysterious instructions. Erroneously scored items further diminish the test's validity. As a result, having enhanced knowledge of formal and informal logic could well result in test subjects receiving lower scores on the test. Many of the W-G's validity issues, however, could be easily remedied. Résumé:Le

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Abstract:The Collegiate Learning Assessment Test (CLA) has become popular and highly recommended, praised for its reliability and validity. I argue that while the CLA may be a commendable test for measuring critical-thinking, problem-solving, and logical-reasoning skills, those who are scoring students' answers to the test's questions are rendering the CLA invalid. Résumé

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