Does Higher Education Teach Students to Think Critically?:Ensuring cross-cultural reliability and validity

The purpose of this chapter is to present a reliability and validity case study investigating the scoring of the Collegiate Learning Assessment (CLA+) of higher education students in Finland as well as the United States. This study contributes to the overall literature on establishing equivalency for an international assessment of students’ critical thinking and written communication skills. Two prior studies, similar in nature, both found that results from a translated and adapted performance-based assessment are comparable (">Zahner‬ and Steedle, 2014[1]; Zahner and Ciolfi, 2018[2])‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬. This chapter presents a third case using CLA+ across two languages and cultures.