Critical thinking in national tests across four subjects in Swedish compulsory school

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Table 1. Variables used in the statistical analysis.

Variable	Category
V1	Critical thinking in interpreting information in Swedish
V2	Critical thinking in evaluating content and form in Swedish
V3	Critical thinking regarding physics in society
V4	Critical thinking in the science of physics
V5	Critical thinking in mathematics
V6	Critical historical thinking
V7	Critical thinking about uses of history
V8	Final grade in Swedish
V9	Final grade in physics
V10	Final grade in mathematics
V11	Final grade in history

Figure 1. Spearman correlation matrix of the variables representing critical thinking and final grades in the four subjects

Figure 2. Pearson correlation matrix of the variables representing critical thinking

Figure 3. One-factor FML model, based on the Pearson correlation matrix

Figure 4. Factor analysis maximum likelihood (FML) with three factors