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RJ
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The
Reasoning about Current Issues Test The Reasoning about Current Issues Test (RCI) is a measure of Reflective Judgment; it focuses on the capacity to recognize and endorse statements that reflect the attributes of reflective thinking as defined by the Reflective Judgment Model. The questionnaire is designed to assess how respondents think about a few current issues, as a reflection of their assumptions about knowledge and the certainty with which knowledge claims can be made. The RCI is not a test of respondents' factual knowledge about the topics or general intellectual abilities. The instrument should not be viewed as directly equivalent to the Reflective
Judgment Interview since it is a recognition task rather than a production task. Each assessment makes different cognitive
demands on the respondent, taps into related but different skills, and illuminates different aspects of the
individual's capacity to make reflective judgments. Nevertheless, the RCI is based on research using the RJI, is grounded in the same theoretical framework, and provides a promising tool for assessing the Reflective Judgment Model (King & Kitchener, 1994)
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