Department of Homeland Security, United States.
Disasters. 2013 Jan;37(1):48-60. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-7717.2012.01291.x. Epub 2012 Oct 16.
Emergency managers must be able to think critically in order to identify and anticipate situations, solve problems, make judgements and decisions effectively and efficiently, and assume and manage risk. Heretofore, a critical thinking skills assessment of local emergency managers had yet to be conducted that tested for correlations among age, gender, education, and years in occupation. An exploratory descriptive research design, using the Watson-Glaser Critical Thinking Appraisal-Short Form (WGCTA-S), was employed to determine the extent to which a sample of 54 local emergency managers demonstrated the critical thinking skills associated with the ability to assume and manage risk as compared to the critical thinking scores of a group of 4,790 peer-level managers drawn from an archival WGCTA-S database. This exploratory design suggests that the local emergency managers, surveyed in this study, had lower WGCTA-S critical thinking scores than their equivalents in the archival database with the exception of those in the high education and high experience group.
应急管理人员必须能够进行批判性思维，以便识别和预测情况，有效地解决问题、做出判断和决策，并承担和管理风险。迄今为止，还没有对地方应急管理人员进行批判性思维技能评估，以测试年龄、性别、教育程度和工作年限之间的相关性。本研究采用探索性描述性研究设计，使用 Watson-Glaser 批判性思维评估-简短形式（WGCTA-S），以确定 54 名地方应急管理人员样本在多大程度上展示了与承担和管理风险相关的批判性思维技能，与从档案 WGCTA-S 数据库中抽取的 4790 名同级管理人员的批判性思维分数进行比较。这一探索性设计表明，与档案数据库中的同级管理人员相比，本研究中调查的地方应急管理人员的 WGCTA-S 批判性思维分数较低，但高教育程度和高经验组除外。
