This simple example is not meant to refute the validity of the test of critical thinking Arum and Ruska used.
This year two sociologists, Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa, showed that 45 percent of students, after two years of college, have made no significant gains on a test of critical thinking.
The Air Force Systems Command, which was in charge of the B-1B put off necessary testing of critical components... until after the entire B-1B fleet of 100 planes was built.
Historiography, the writing of history, especially the writing of history based on the critical examination of sources, the selection of particular details from the authentic materials in those sources, and the synthesis of those details into a narrative that stands the test of critical examination.
Testing of critical current with respect to temperature and magnetic field is of particular importance.
Using these proteins, three ELISA methods were developed and optimized for reproducibility and robustness, including stability testing of critical reagents.
Development of a water detritiation system (WDS), i.e. configuration, design and performance testing of critical components is essential for ITER.
More recently, empirical laboratory-based testing of critical infrastructure components has been conducted in our Volcanic Ash Testing Lab (VAT Lab) (Wilson et al. [2012a]; Wardman et al. [2012b]).
He said that Setanta had essentially failed the test of critical mass back in February when it lost one of its two Premier League packages to Sky, and that now any further difficulties were not necessarily in Sky's interest.
Engineering structures seldom behave linearly and, as a result, linearity checks are common practice in the testing of critical structures exposed to dynamic loading to define the boundary of validity of the linear regime.
