This article describes a measure that assesses ability to think critically about whether to adopt
a treatment method. The measure is called PRIDE1 (Principles of Reasoning, Inference,
Decision-Making and Evaluation). PRIDE1 takes about 80 minutes to administer an emotional
audiovisual argument and to obtain written responses. Scoring each response takes expertenced
raters from 2 to 10 minutes. Pearson's r interrater reliability on 5 trials range from. .78 to 96.
There was no statistically significant correlation between responses on PRIDE1 and research
knowledge, as measured on the Kirk-Rosenblatt Research Knowledge Scale. This study suggests
that there may be little or no association between research knowledge and ability to think
critically about practice.
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