UiTM develops test to help graduates find work

Researchers from the Faculty of Education, Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) have devised a prototype assessing tool to gauge a candidate's critical thinking skills which appears to be a much sought after criteria among employers.

During its development, a tangible assessment tool was formulated and constructed using specified dimensions and constructs to assess the candidate's responses. The candidates' critical thinking skills ability would be formulated automatically by the system, saving valuable time that the human resource department and the HEIs would have to allocate when using the conventional method of manual assessment and grading.

The e-MCTT is a test that assesses the test takers' critical thinking skills. The measurement of these skills is divided into 24 sets of problems with 6 seminal dimensions comprising both quantitative and qualitative problems.